I will also speak of your testimonies before kings and shall not be put to shame,
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
The service of sin is perfect slavery; the service of God is perfect liberty. When you love His commandments, you seek His precepts not by constraint but willingly, and nothing will stop you from owning your faith even before kings. Fear of man is the real prison; conscience toward God is freedom itself.
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Commenting on Psalm 119:45-48
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved,.... Showing by such a gesture his great esteem of them, and affection for them; stretching out his hands, and embracing them with both arms, as it were: and this being a praying gesture, Ti2 2:8, may signify his earnest desire and request that he might have grace and spiritual strength to...