Forged a lie; a slander, charging me with hypocrisy towards God, and rebellion against my prince. But I will keep thy precepts; my practice shall confute their calumnies. read more
Their heart is as fat as grease; the sense is either, 1. They are stupid, and insensible, and past feeling, not affected either with the terrors or comforts of God’s word. So the like phrase is used Isaiah 6:10, compared with John 12:40. Or, 2. They prosper exceedingly, and are even glutted with the wealth and comforts of this life. But I delight in thy law; but I do not envy them their jollity, and I have as much delight in God’s law as they have in worldly things. read more
Good; necessary, and greatly beneficial. He repeats what in effect he said before, Psalms 119:67, partly to intimate the certainty and importance of this truth, and partly because it is a great paradox to worldly men, who generally esteem afflictions to be evil, yea, the worst of evils. read more
Not only thy promises, but even thy precepts, which are so unpleasant and hard to ungodly men, to me they are more desirable and more needful and profitable, because they do not only give me abundant satisfaction and comfort in this life, but also they conduct me with safety and delight unto that eternal and most blessed life, where gold and silver bear no price. read more
INTRODUCTION1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril (Psalms 119:9; Psalms 119:23; Psalms 119:46; Psalms 119:141; Psalms 119:161). Others (of chief authority), from the language and contents, imagine it to be of much later date. Jebb thinks, Daniel; others, Ezra; Dean Stanley says that the rhythm seems to mark the age of Jeremiah; Kay supposes it to depict the mental state of those who have passed through the... read more
Psalms 119:47 The love of God's laws is to be distinguished from the mere outward observance of them. As in the law of Moses, so far more in the Gospel of Christ, religion is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, consisting not in the mere observance of certain rules, however good, but in the love and delight we have in observing them, as being the gracious means appointed by our heavenly Father and Redeemer to bring us to His eternal rest. I. Looking, then, impartially into... read more
Psalms 119:54 The doctrine of the Psalmist, removing the poetry of the form, is this: that obligation to God is our privilege. I. Consider how it would be with us if we existed under no terms of obligation. (1) There could be no such thing as criminal law for the defence of property, reputation, and life, because the moral distinctions on which criminal law is grounded would be all wanting. (2) What we call society, as far as there is any element of dignity or blessing in it, depends on these... read more
Psalms 119:55-56 I. The keeping of God's law is promoted by the remembering of God's name. The name of God includes all the attributes of God. (1) If I remember the attributes of God, I must remember amongst them a power before which every created thing must do homage; and if I couple with the memory of this power the thought that the undying principle I carry within me must become hereafter an organ of infinite pleasure or of infinite pain, subject as it will be to the irreversible allotments... read more
Psalms 119:59 I. Hebrew scholars tell us that when they get to the root of these words, "I thought on my ways," they find a weaver there working at his loom. That is the figure that lies deep beneath this word the figure of a man working skilfully at his web, looking to his garment, that he may not be ashamed whatever side may be exposed, careful that on both sides his workmanship is faultless. "I thought on my ways." I turned my life upside down, round about, looked at it from all points of... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 119:68
Thou art good; gracious and bountiful in thy nature. And doest good to all men, both good and bad, Matthew 5:45, and in all things, yea, even when thou afflictest. Teach me thy statutes; which is the good that I desire above all things. read more