Psalm 119:93-97 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:93

Here is, 1. A very good resolution: ?I will never forget thy precepts, but will always retain a remembrance of and regard to thy word as my rule.? It is a resolution for perpetuity, never to be altered. Note, The best evidence of our love to the word of God is never to forget it. We must resolve that we will never, at any time, cast off our religion, and never, upon any occasion, lay aside our religion, but that we will be constant to it and persevere in it. 2. A very good reason for it: ?For... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:94

Here, 1. David claims relation to God: ?I am thine, devoted to thee and owned by thee, thine in covenant.? He does not say, Thou art mine (as Dr. Manton observes), though that follows of course, because that were a higher challenge; but, I am thine, expressing himself in a more humble and dutiful way of resignation; nor does he say, I am thus, but, I am thine, not pleading his own good property or qualification, but God's propriety in him: ?I am thine, not my own, not the world?s.? 2. He... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:95

Here, 1. David complains of the malice of his enemies: The wicked (and none but such would be enemies to so good a man) have waited for me to destroy me. They were very cruel, and aimed at no less than his destruction; they were very crafty, and sought all opportunities to do him a mischief; and they were confident (they expected, so some read it), that they should destroy him; they thought themselves sure of their prey. 2. He comforts himself in the word of God as his protection: ?While they... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:96

Here we have David's testimony from his own experience, 1. Of the vanity of the world and its insufficiency to make us happy: I have seen an end of all perfection. Poor perfection which one sees an end of! Yet such are all those things in this world which pass for perfections. David, in his time, had seen Goliath, the strongest, overcome, Asahel, the swiftest, overtaken, Ahithophel, the wisest, befooled, Absalom, the fairest, deformed; and, in short, he had seen an end of perfection, of all... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:97

Here is, 1. David's inexpressible love to the word of God: O how love I thy law! He protests his affection to the word of God with a holy vehemency; he found that love to it in his heart which, considering the corruption of his nature and the temptations of the world, he could not but wonder at, and at that grace which had wrought it in him. He not only loved the promises, but loved the law, and delighted in it after the inner man. 2. An unexceptionable evidence of this. What we love we love... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:93

I will never forget thy precepts ,.... Not the precepts of the moral law, though he carefully observed and attended to them, laid them up in his mind, and did not forget to keep them; but the doctrines of the word, of the word which the Lord commanded to a thousand generations; these he endeavoured to remember, and not let them slip from him, since it follows: for with them thou hast quickened me : not with the precepts of the moral law, which cannot give life, quicken a dead sinner, nor... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:94

I am thine, save me ,.... From all troubles and afflictions; from all enemies, temporal and spiritual; from Satan, and his principalities and powers, from sin, and all the wretched consequences of it; from hell wrath, and damnations: salvation from all which is by Christ. And this is a prayer of faith with respect to him, founded upon his interest and property in him; whose he was by choice, by covenant, by gift, by purchase, and by grace: and this is a plea for salvation; thou hast an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:95

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me ,.... This is another reason why he desires the Lord would save him; because wicked men, such who feared not God, nor regarded men, sons of Belial; such as Saul's courtiers and the conspirators with Absalom were, had laid wait and were waiting an opportunity, and were hoping and expecting to have one, that they might take away his life; destroy him out of the world, as Kimchi; or eternally, as Aben Ezra thinks; by endeavouring to draw him out of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:96

I have seen an end of all perfection ,.... An end, limit, or border, to every country, as the Syriac version; as there is to every kingdom and state, and to the whole world; but none to the commandment of God: or an end of all created beings, the finished works of God, the most perfect in their kind. Manythings had already fallen under the observation of the psalmist: he had seen men of the greatest strength, and of the most consummate wisdom, and that had attained to the highest degree of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:97

מ , MEM.--The Thirteenth Part . MEM. O how love I thy law !.... The whole word of God, the preceptive part of it; the commands of the moral law, which are holy, just, and good, and to be loved: but they are not loved by carnal men, whose minds are enmity to them, and therefore are not and cannot be subject to them, but despise and reject them; but to a good man, on whose heart they are written, they are delightful, and loved to admiration: though this is wholly owing to the grace of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:93

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:94

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:95

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:96

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:97

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:93

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:94

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:95

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:96

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:97

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