John Calvin Reformed @genevareformer

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

Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

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

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

This is my comfort in my affliction,.... David had his afflictions, and so has every good man; none are without; it is the will and pleasure of God that so it should be; and many are their afflictions, inward and outward: the word of God is often their comfort under them, the written word, heard or read; and especially a word of promise, powerfully applied...