Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.
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
Honesty is the best policy and will be our rejoicing in the day of evil. David had rendered to all their due by force and fraud; now he appeals to God as his Judge and Surety, begging Him to undertake against those who would run him down. Even the best of men are oppressed by the proud, yet if God be for us, who can prevail against us?
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Commenting on Psalm 119:121-122
It is time for thee, Lord, to work,.... To send the Messiah, to work righteousness; to fulfil the law, and vindicate the honour of it, broken by men. It was always a notion of the Jews that the time of the Messiah's coming would be when it was a time of great wickedness in the earth; and which seems to agree with the word of...