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

I declared all God's judgments with my lips, not merely as a king giving orders, but in my daily speech, showing how full my heart was of His word. Out of abundance of the heart the mouth speaks; so I fed others with what I myself had been fed. Those who know God's word should share it freely, as a householder brings forth from his store things new and old.

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Commenting on Psalm 119:13-16

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

I will delight myself in thy statutes,.... In looking over them; in meditating on them; in obeying them, and walking according to them; as every good man does delight in the law of the Lord, after the inward man, Rom 7:22; see Psa 119:24; I will not forget thy word: he took all proper methods to fix it in his memory; he laid it up...