Psalms 119:113-176

Samekh.

113 I hate those who are ¹double-minded, But I love Your ²law.

114 You are my ³hiding place and my ⁴shield; I ⁵wait for Your word.

115 ⁶Depart from me, evildoers, That I may ⁷observe the commandments of my God.

116 ⁸Sustain me according to Your word, that I may live; And ⁹do not let me be ashamed of my hope.

117 Uphold me that I may be ¹⁰safe, That I may ¹¹have regard for Your statutes continually.

118 You have rejected all those ¹²who wander from Your statutes, For their deceitfulness is useless.

119 You have removed all the wicked of the earth like ¹³dross; Therefore I ¹⁴love Your testimonies.

120 My flesh ¹⁵trembles for fear of You, And I am ¹⁶afraid of Your judgments. Ayin.

Ayin.

121 I have ¹⁷done justice and righteousness; Do not leave me to my oppressors.

122 Be ¹⁸surety for Your servant for good; Do not let the arrogant ¹⁹oppress me.

123 My ²⁰eyes fail with longing for Your salvation And for Your righteous word.

124 Deal with Your servant ²¹according to Your lovingkindness And ²²teach me Your statutes.

125 ²³I am Your servant; ²⁴give me understanding, That I may know Your testimonies.

126 It is time for the LORD to ²⁵act, For they have broken Your law.

127 Therefore * I ²⁶love Your commandments Above gold, yes, above fine gold.

128 Therefore * I esteem right all Your ²⁷precepts concerning everything, I ²⁸hate every false way. Pe.

Pe.

129 Your testimonies are ²⁹wonderful; Therefore * my soul ³⁰observes them.

130 The ³¹unfolding of Your words gives light; It gives ³²understanding to the simple.

131 I ³³opened my mouth wide and ³⁴panted, For I ³⁵longed for Your commandments.

132 ³⁶Turn to me and be gracious to me, After Your manner with those who love Your name.

133 Establish my ³⁷footsteps in Your word, And do not let any iniquity ³⁸have dominion over me.

134 ³⁹Redeem me from the oppression of man, That I may keep Your precepts.

135 ⁴⁰Make Your face shine upon Your servant, And ⁴¹teach me Your statutes.

136 My eyes shed ⁴²streams of water, Because they ⁴³do not keep Your law. Tsadhe.

Tsadhe.

137 ⁴⁴Righteous are You, O LORD, And upright are Your judgments.

138 You have commanded Your testimonies in ⁴⁵righteousness And exceeding ⁴⁶faithfulness.

139 My ⁴⁷zeal has consumed me, Because my adversaries have forgotten Your words.

140 Your ⁴⁸word is very pure, Therefore Your servant ⁴⁹loves it.

141 I am small and ⁵⁰despised, Yet I do not ⁵¹forget Your precepts.

142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And ⁵²Your law is truth.

143 Trouble and anguish have come upon me, Yet Your commandments are my ⁵³delight.

144 Your ⁵⁴testimonies are righteous forever; ⁵⁵Give me understanding that I may live. Qoph.

Qoph.

145 I cried ⁵⁶with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will ⁵⁷observe Your statutes.

146 I cried to You; ⁵⁸save me And I shall keep Your testimonies.

147 I ⁵⁹rise before dawn and cry for help; I wait for Your words.

148 My eyes anticipate the ⁶⁰night watches, That I may ⁶¹meditate on Your word.

149 Hear my voice ⁶²according to Your lovingkindness; ⁶³Revive me, O LORD, according to Your ordinances.

150 Those who follow after wickedness draw near; They are far from Your law.

151 You are ⁶⁴near, O LORD, And all Your commandments are ⁶⁵truth.

152 Of old I have ⁶⁶known from Your testimonies That You have founded them ⁶⁷forever. Resh.

Resh.

153 ⁶⁸Look upon my ⁶⁹affliction and rescue me, For I do not ⁷⁰forget Your law.

154 ⁷¹Plead my cause and ⁷²redeem me; Revive me according to Your word.

155 Salvation is ⁷³far from the wicked, For they ⁷⁴do not seek Your statutes.

156 ⁷⁵Great are Your mercies, O LORD; Revive me according to Your ordinances.

157 Many are my ⁷⁶persecutors and my adversaries, Yet I do not ⁷⁷turn aside from Your testimonies.

158 I behold the ⁷⁸treacherous and ⁷⁹loathe them, Because they do not keep Your word.

159 Consider how I ⁸⁰love Your precepts; ⁸¹Revive me, O LORD, according to Your lovingkindness.

160 The ⁸²sum of Your word is ⁸³truth, And every one of Your righteous ordinances ⁸⁴is everlasting. Shin.

Shin.

161 ⁸⁵Princes persecute me without cause, But my heart ⁸⁶stands in awe of Your words.

162 I ⁸⁷rejoice at Your word, As one who ⁸⁸finds great spoil.

163 I ⁸⁹hate and despise falsehood, But I ⁹⁰love Your law.

164 Seven times a day I praise You, Because of Your ⁹¹righteous ordinances.

165 Those who love Your law have ⁹²great peace, And ⁹³nothing causes them to stumble.

166 I ⁹⁴hope for Your salvation, O LORD, And do Your commandments.

167 My ⁹⁵soul keeps Your testimonies, And I ⁹⁶love them exceedingly.

168 I ⁹⁷keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, For all my ⁹⁸ways are before You. Tav.

Tav.

169 Let my ⁹⁹cry come before You, O LORD; ¹⁰⁰Give me understanding ¹⁰¹according to Your word.

170 Let my ¹⁰²supplication come before You; ¹⁰³Deliver me according to Your word.

171 Let my ¹⁰⁴lips utter praise, For You ¹⁰⁵teach me Your statutes.

172 Let my ¹⁰⁶tongue sing of Your word, For all Your ¹⁰⁷commandments are righteousness.

173 Let Your ¹⁰⁸hand be ready to help me, For I have ¹⁰⁹chosen Your precepts.

174 I ¹¹⁰long for Your salvation, O LORD, And Your law is my ¹¹¹delight.

175 Let my ¹¹²soul live that it may praise You, And let Your ordinances help me.

176 I have ¹¹³gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, For I do ¹¹⁴not forget Your commandments.

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Psalms 119:113-176 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 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 his life; interspersed with various petitions for the grace of God, to enable him to observe it. The psalm is a very extraordinary one; partly on account of the unusual length of it, it being more than double the length of the longest psalm in the whole book; and partly on account of its curious composition. It consists of twenty two parts, according to the number of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet; the names of which letters stand between each part; and every part consists of eight verses, all of which begin with the same letter: thus, for instance, the first eight verses begin with the letter a, "aleph", and the second eight verses begin with the letter b, "beth", and so on throughout; hence the Masorah calls this psalm the Great Alphabet. This the psalmist did, perhaps to excite attention to what he said, and also to help the memory. And it is observable that there are very few verses in the whole, not more than one or two, but what has something in it concerning the word of God, and its precepts and ordinances; there are nine or ten different words used relative to it, which signify much one and the same thing; as laws, statutes, judgments, testimonies Luther {m} observes, that neither Cicero, nor Virgil, nor Demosthenes, are to be compared with David for eloquence, as we see in the hundred nineteenth Psalm, where he divideth one sense and meaning into twenty two sorts. And it may also be remarked, that there is nothing in it concerning the tabernacle worship, or the rites and ceremonies of the legal dispensation; so that it seems to be calculated for, and is suited to, the word of God, and the ordinances of it, as we now have them in their full perfection: and the design of the whole is to show the fervent affection the psalmist had for the word of God, and to stir up the same in others.

{m} Mensal. Colloqu. c. 32. p. 365.

a, \\ALEPH.--The First Part\\.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 114

1. 1 Kings 18:21; James 1:8; James 4:8
2. Psalms 119:47
3. Psalms 31:20; Psalms 32:7; Psalms 61:4; Psalms 91:1
4. Psalms 84:9
5. Psalms 119:74
6. Psalms 6:8; Psalms 139:19; Matthew 7:23
7. Psalms 119:22
8. Psalms 37:17, 24; Psalms 54:4
9. Psalms 25:2, 20; Psalms 31:1, 17; Romans 5:5; Romans 9:33; Philippians 1:20
10. Psalms 12:5; Proverbs 29:25
11. Psalms 119:6, 15
12. Psalms 119:10, 21
13. Isaiah 1:22, 25; Ezekiel 22:18, 19
14. Psalms 119:47
15. Job 4:14; Habakkuk 3:16
16. Psalms 119:161
17. 2 Samuel 8:15; Job 29:14
18. Job 17:3; Hebrews 7:22
19. Psalms 119:134
20. Psalms 119:82
21. Psalms 51:1; Psalms 106:45; Psalms 109:26; Psalms 119:88, 149, 159
22. Psalms 119:12
23. Psalms 116:16
24. Psalms 119:27
25. Jeremiah 18:23; Ezekiel 31:11
26. Psalms 19:10; Psalms 119:47
27. Psalms 19:8
28. Psalms 119:104
29. Psalms 119:18
30. Psalms 119:22
31. Proverbs 6:23
32. Psalms 19:7
33. Job 29:23; Psalms 81:10
34. Psalms 42:1
35. Psalms 119:20
36. Psalms 25:16; Psalms 106:4
37. Psalms 17:5
38. Psalms 19:13; Romans 6:12
39. Psalms 119:84; Psalms 142:6; Luke 1:74
40. Numbers 6:25; Psalms 4:6; Psalms 31:16; Psalms 67:1; Psalms 80:3, 7, 19
41. Psalms 119:12
42. Jeremiah 9:1, 18; Jeremiah 14:17; Lamentations 3:48
43. Psalms 119:158
44. Ezra 9:15; Nehemiah 9:33; Psalms 116:5; Psalms 129:4; Psalms 145:17; Jeremiah 12:1; Lamentations 1:18; Daniel 9:7, 14
45. Psalms 19:7-9; Psalms 119:144, 172
46. Psalms 119:86, 90
47. Psalms 69:9; John 2:17
48. Psalms 12:6; Psalms 19:8
49. Psalms 119:47
50. Psalms 22:6
51. Psalms 119:61
52. Psalms 19:9; Psalms 119:151, 160
53. Psalms 119:24
54. Psalms 19:9
55. Psalms 119:27
56. Psalms 119:10
57. Psalms 119:22, 55
58. Psalms 3:7
59. Psalms 5:3; Psalms 57:8; Psalms 108:2
60. Psalms 63:6
61. Psalms 119:15
62. Psalms 119:124
63. Psalms 119:25
64. Psalms 34:18; Psalms 145:18; Isaiah 50:8
65. Psalms 119:142
66. Psalms 119:125
67. Psalms 119:89; Luke 21:33
68. Lamentations 5:1
69. Psalms 119:50
70. Psalms 119:16; Proverbs 3:1; Hosea 4:6
71. 1 Samuel 24:15; Psalms 35:1; Micah 7:9
72. Psalms 119:134
73. Job 5:4
74. Psalms 119:45, 94
75. 2 Samuel 24:14
76. Psalms 7:1; Psalms 119:86, 161
77. Psalms 119:51
78. Isaiah 21:2; Isaiah 24:16
79. Psalms 139:21
80. Psalms 119:47
81. Psalms 119:25
82. Psalms 139:17
83. Psalms 119:142
84. Psalms 119:89, 152
85. 1 Samuel 24:11; 1 Samuel 26:18; Psalms 119:23
86. Psalms 119:120
87. Psalms 119:14, 111
88. 1 Samuel 30:16; Isaiah 9:3
89. Psalms 31:6; Psalms 119:104, 128; Proverbs 13:5
90. Psalms 119:47
91. Psalms 119:7, 160
92. Psalms 37:11; Proverbs 3:2; Isaiah 26:3; Isaiah 32:17
93. Proverbs 3:23; Isaiah 63:13; 1 John 2:10
94. Genesis 49:18; Psalms 119:81, 174
95. Psalms 119:129
96. Psalms 119:47
97. Psalms 119:22
98. Job 24:23; Psalms 139:3; Proverbs 5:21
99. Job 16:18; Psalms 18:6; Psalms 102:1
100. Psalms 119:27, 144
101. Psalms 119:65, 154
102. Psalms 28:2; Psalms 130:2; Psalms 140:6; Psalms 143:1
103. Psalms 22:20; Psalms 31:2; Psalms 59:1
104. Psalms 51:15; Psalms 63:3
105. Psalms 94:12; Psalms 119:12; Isaiah 2:3; Micah 4:2
106. Psalms 51:14
107. Psalms 119:138
108. Psalms 37:24; Psalms 73:23
109. Joshua 24:22; Luke 10:42
110. Psalms 119:166
111. Psalms 119:16, 24
112. Isaiah 55:3
113. Isaiah 53:6; Jeremiah 50:6; Matthew 18:12; Luke 15:4
114. Psalms 119:16

Footnotes 27

[a]. Or "hope in"
[b]. Or "promise"
[c]. Lit "put to shame because of"
[d]. Lit "made light of"
[e]. Lit "falsehood"
[f]. Lit "caused to cease"
[g]. Lit "bristles up from"
[h]. Or "promise"
[i]. Lit "to"
[j]. Or "promise"
[k]. Lit "run down"
[l]. Lit "put an end to"
[m]. Or "promise"
[n]. Lit "refined"
[o]. Lit "found me"
[p]. Lit "anticipate the dawn"
[q]. Or "hope in"
[r]. Or "promise"
[s]. Or "promise"
[t]. Or "Many"
[u]. Or "promise"
[v]. Or "promise"
[w]. Lit "they have no stumbling block"
[x]. Lit "come near before"
[y]. Or "promise"
[z]. Or "promise"
[aa]. Lit "to help me"