I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end. Samekh
This psalm pursues two chief ends: to exhort God's children toward a holy life, and to establish the Law as the rule and form of true worship. The psalmist weaves in promises to animate believers to live justly, and complaints against the wicked who despise the Law, lest the faithful be corrupted by their example. Though he moves from one matter to another, the composition is not a heap of scattered thoughts, but holds together by a living connection.
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Commenting on Psalm 119:1-176
God's testimonies are not a future hope but a present inheritance, my heart already rejoices in them because they are mine forever. I have bent my will entirely to His statutes, for true comfort comes only through obedience, not through grasping at the fleeting things of this world.
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Commenting on Psalm 119:111-112
Uphold me according unto thy word,.... In thy ways, that my footsteps slip not; in thine arms, and with the right hand of thy righteousness, from fainting and sinking under difficulties and discouragements, in trying circumstances; and from slipping and sliding out of the way of God; and from a total and final filling away, according to thy word of promise, that, as are the...