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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 119 This psalm is generally thought to be written by David, but when is uncertain; very probably towards the decline of life; and, as some think, for the sake or his son Solomon. It seems to be a collection of observations on the word of God and its precepts, the usefulness and excellency of it, he had made in the course of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
ALEPH. Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way,.... Who are in the right way to heaven and happiness, which is Jesus Christ; the strait gate, and narrow way to eternal life; the only true way of life and salvation, in which way believers walk by faith. All out of this way are altogether become filthy; but all in this way are clean, even every bit:...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This is a psalm by itself, like none of the rest; it excels them all, and shines brightest in this constellation. It is much longer than any of them more than twice as long as any of them. It is not making long prayers that Christ censurers, but making them for a pretence, which intimates that they are in themselves good and commendable. It seems...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. If there are any people in the world who are blessed, surely it must be those who are in God’s way, and who take care to keep their garments unspotted from the world. Oh, if one can feel, at the end of every day, “I am undefiled in God’s way, and I have walked in his law,” how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. There is another blessing which comes before this. “Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven, .and whose sin is covered.” And we can never know the blessing of this 119th Psalm unless we have felt in our own souls that first blessing — the blessedness of forgiven sin....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. Presumptuous thoughts, erroneous thoughts, wicked thoughts, foolish thoughts,-all three David hated. A good man ought to be a good hater, as well as a good lover. What should he hate? He should hate sin thoughts. What should he love? He should love the law of the Lord. If we do not hate sin in the very...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies,.... The whole word of God, the Scriptures of truth, are his testimonies: they testify of the mind of God, and of his love and grace in the method of salvation by Christ; they testify of Christ, his person, offices, and grace; of the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow; and of all the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. And if we walk in God’s ways, he will never require us to do anything which is inequitable or unrighteous. No, that life which is made up of walking in God’s ways, will be full of equity, and free from iniquity.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. For he that has most of God, yet needs to seek more. We keep the testimonies — those we know, for we are taught of the Lord according to the promise, “All thy children shall be taught of the Lord.” Yet do we still seek more. With our whole heart are we pressing on...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They also do no iniquity,.... Not that they are free from indwelling sin, nor from the acts of sin, nor that what they do are not sins; but they do not make a trade of sinning, it is not the course of their lives; nor do they do iniquity with that ease and pleasure, without reluctance and remorse, as others do: or rather as new creatures, as born...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. So that if we do so, we are unprofitable servants. We have done no more than was our duty to do. When his divine grace has renewed us, and has enabled us to walk in all sobriety, and truthfulness, and holiness, even then we have nothing to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently. Here, and in the following verses, the psalmist expresses his great regard to the precepts, commandments, statutes, and judgments of God; and that as such, because they were commanded by him; were not the precepts of men, but the commands of God; who had a right to command, as Creator,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. We are to be as industrious in holiness as grasping men are in business. “Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently,” watchfully, carefully, industriously, with all our might.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!] The psalmist, sensible of his own inability, as every good man is, to keep the commands of God, prays for grace, direction, and assistance in it; that the ways of his mind, his thoughts, affections, and inclinations, might be directed to an observance of the divine precepts; knowing he could not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! The psalmist is driven to prayer. His admiration of the godly man makes him aspire to be like him, and then he feels that he cannot attain to that height without divine help; so he cries, “O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes ! “Oh! that I may never defile my garments!” And he who has not defiled his garments still prays the same prayer that he may be kept still and directed still. “Oh! that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then shall I not be ashamed,.... Of hope in God, of a profession of faith in him, and of a conversation agreeable to it before men; nor of appearing before God in his house, worshipping him there; nor at the throne of his grace, nor at the day of judgment, and before Christ at his coming; when I have respect unto all thy commandments; or "look"...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. That is a wide expression, “respect unto all thy commandments.” There are many men who are willing to keep a part of God’s commandments; but they must pick and choose for themselves which these shall be. Such are arrant traitors; there lurks in their heart a distinct...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. It gives a man boldness. Integrity of heart before God breeds sacred courage. He has nothing to be ashamed of, and he is not ashamed when he has respect unto all God’s commandments.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart,.... In the most sincere manner, in the most affectionate way, with the whole heart; sensible of great favours received, and great obligations laid under; see Psalms 9:1; when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments; or, "the judgments of thy righteousness" (o): of the righteousness of God,...