Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules.
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 righteousness is not partial or defective, but perfect and entire; His nature wants nothing, His rule wrongs no creature, and His law commands what we ourselves ought to be. Every word He speaks is pure, and He knows the merit of every case perfectly. His commands teach us to be just to ourselves and true to all we promise, both to God and man.
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Commenting on Psalm 119:137-138
I am small and despised,.... Or, "I have been" (x). Some versions render it "young" (y); as if it had respect to the time of his anointing by Samuel, when he was overlooked and despised in his father's family, Sa1 16:11; but the word here used is not expressive of age, but of state, condition, and circumstances; and the meaning is, that he was little...