All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.
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 treads down all who wander from His statutes and casts them away like dross, worthless, separated from the gold of the righteous. The proud may trample His people for a time, but He will surely triumph over those who oppose His kingdom and cast them into everlasting fire.
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Commenting on Psalm 119:118-120
Mine eyes fail for that salvation,.... For temporal salvation or deliverance from oppressors; and for spiritual salvation, for views of an interest in it, the joys and comforts of it; and for the Messiah, the author of it; whom he was looking wistfully for, but, not coming so soon as expected, his eyes were tired and weary, and ready to fail, and his heart to...