A grateful confession of Divine aid. How fitly this section follows on the foregoing one! There was darkness, indeed; but here is light. The psalmist celebrates—let us do so with him—the help of God. I. IT IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN FOREVER THAT SUCH AID SHALL BE FORTHCOMING . ( Psalms 119:89 .) Therefore: 1. No power of man can hinder it . It is "settled." 2. Nor any lapse of time . Generations may come and go, but that matters not. God's... read more
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations . God "keepeth his promise forever" ( Psalms 146:6 , Prayer-book Version). If his "Word" generally is unchanging, so especially must be his promises. Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. Even God's physical laws have a character of perpetuity about them. "The constancy of God in his works is an argument for the faithfulness of God in his Word" (Chalmers). read more
They continue this day according to thine ordinances . Heaven and earth continue to observe the ordinances given them by God at the first (comp. Jeremiah 31:35 , Jeremiah 31:36 ; Jeremiah 33:25 ). For all are thy servants ; rather, all things , or all creatures . read more
Unless thy Law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction (comp. Psalms 119:16 , Psalms 119:24 , Psalms 119:35 , Psalms 119:47 , Psalms 119:70 , Psalms 119:77 ). Only a real love of God's commandments can sustain men under severe affliction. read more
The supreme strain of affliction. This verse Luther selected as the motto for his own Bible, which is now in the museum at Berlin. So long as affliction keeps in the sphere of a man's circumstances it is endurable. We make too much of human afflictions when we fix our attention on them, and miss estimating the ways in which men are affected by them. What affliction is to a man, what amount of strain it involves, depend on the man's emotional nature, the condition and character of his... read more
I will never forget thy precepts (comp. Psalms 119:16 , Psalms 119:61 , Psalms 119:83 ). For with them thou hast quickened me (comp. Psalms 119:50 , "Thy Word hath quickened me"). read more
I am thine, save me . "Save me," i . e . as being thine own—thy true servant and follower. For I have sought thy precepts . And thus shown my fidelity. read more
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me ; or, "laid in wait for me" (comp. Psalms 56:6 , where the same verb is used). But I will consider thy testimonies I will look to thy word of promise, and so sustain their assaults upon me. read more
I have seen an end of all perfection ; i . e . to all other perfection I have seen, and see, a limit; but there is no limit to the perfection of thy Law. Thy commandment is exceeding broad . Unlimited—measureless in its range. It inculcates on man an absolute perfection. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 119:89
Forever, O Lord, thy Word is settled in heaven . God's Word, or Law, is eternal and unchanging—fixed and established forever in the heaven of heavens (comp. Psalms 89:2 ; James 1:17 ). read more