Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 119:119
(119) Thou puttest away.—For this common Scriptural figure comp. Jeremiah 6:28-30; Ezekiel 22:18-20. This is indeed a process which is continually going on, and it is one test of the true religious character that it can discern it at work under the seeming contradictions of the world. Where apparently vice succeeds and prospers it is really marked out for expulsion,“To those whoAll treasures and all gain esteem as dross;And dignities and powers, all but the Highest.”MILTON. read more
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 119:118
(118) Trodden down.—Better, thou despisest. So LXX. and Vulg. Aquila, “Thou hast impaled.” Symmachus, “Thou hast convicted.” Literally the word seems to mean to weigh or value, but, from the habit of the buyer beating down the price by depreciating, comes to have a sense of this kind. Mr. Burgess aptly quotes Proverbs 20:14. We may compare the English word cheapen, which originally only meant to buy.For their deceit is falsehood.—Rather, as the parallelism indicates, for their tricks are in... read more