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6661 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.21 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:23 ), which was of such use to him when princes sat and spoke against him. 1. Did the affliction make his sad? The word of God comforted him, and was his delight …
6662 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.25 (Matthew Henry)
… Psalms 119:25; My soul cleaveth to the dust. Heaviness in the heart of man makes it to melt, to drop away like a candle that wastes. The penitent soul melts in sorrow …
6663 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.30 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 119:32. Here we have, 1. His resolution to go on vigorously in religion: I will run the way of thy commandments. Those that are going to heaven should make …
6664 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.39 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 119:22. David was conscious to himself that he had done that which might give occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, which would blemish his …
6665 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.43 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 119:47, 119:48. I not only give consent to them as good, but take complacency in them as good for me.” All that love God love his government and therefore love …
6666 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.50 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:56 ): This I had because I kept thy precepts. Some understand this indefinitely: This I had (that is I had that which satisfied me; I had every thing that …
6667 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.52 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:57 ) may plead the promises of the word and take the comfort of them.
6668 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.53 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:57 ), and it was well said; now here he tells us how and in what method he pursued that resolution. 1. He thought on his ways. He thought beforehand what …
6669 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.54 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:51 ), they set upon his goods, and spoiled him of them, either by plunder in time of war or by fines and confiscations under colour of law. Saul (it is likely …
6670 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.67 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:76 ), his tender mercies, Psalms 119:77. He can claim nothing as his due, but all his supports under his affliction must come from mere mercy and compassion …
6671 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.80 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:87 ): But I forsook not thy precepts. That which they aimed at was to frighten him from the ways of God, but they could not prevail; he would sooner forsake …
6672 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.81 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:40 ); but here, Quicken me after thy lovingkindness. The surest token of God’s good-will toward us is his good work in us.
6673 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.94 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:101 ), but he hates it, has an antipathy to it and a dread of it. [3.] Those who hate sin as sin will hate all sin, hate every false way, because every false way …
6674 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.97 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:106 ) and therefore could, with humble boldness, beg of God to make good his word to him.
6675 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.119 (Matthew Henry)
Here David prays for two great spiritual blessings, and is, in this verse, as earnest for the good work of God in him as, in the verse before, for the good-will of …
6676 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.122 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:135 ), now he pleads that he was qualified for that comfort, and had need of it, for he was one of those that mourned in Zion, and those that do so shall be …
6677 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.128 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:141 ), I am small and despised, and yet adhere to my duty. Here he finds himself not only mean, but miserable, as far as this world could make him so: Trouble …
6678 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.130 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:146 ): “ Save me from my sins, my corruptions, my temptations, all the hindrances that lie in my way, that I may keep thy testimonies .” We must cry for salvation …
6679 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.135 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 119:149. God brings us into imminent perils, as he did Jacob, that, like him, we may wrestle for a blessing.
6680 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.141 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 119:155 ); but God is good notwithstanding; there were tender mercies sufficient in God to have saved them, if they had not “ despised the riches of those …