Verse 119:8 begins with the Hebrew word "Aet" whose first letter is "Aleph" and which is not translated but is hidden in the expression I WILL KEEP THY STATUTES.

0000001137 00000 n [Psalms 119:4] THOU HAST COMMANDED US TO The subject is treated in a devout manner rather than in a didactic style.

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In the mouth of the people welcoming Jesus as the Messiah, Hoosanna' was a "God save the king" (vid., on Psalm 20:10); they scattered palm branches at the same time, like the lulabs at the joyous cry of the Feast of Tabernacles, and saluted Him with the cry, "Blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord," as being the longed-for guest of the Feast (Matthew 21:9).

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You are not only instructed, but influenced to holy emotion, and helped to express the same. On the ground of the fact that Jahve has proved Himself to be אל, the absolutely mighty One, by having granted light to His people, viz., loving-kindness, liberty, and joy, there then issues forth the ejaculation, "Bind the sacrifice," etc. Psalm 119 is a poem expressed in a creative literary form known as an acrostic poem that is fun and easy to remember for the Jews. It is further observable that the word of God is here diversely called by the names of law, statutes, precepts or commandments, judgments, ordinances, righteousness, testimonies, way, and word; by which variety he designed to express the nature and the great perfection and manifold parts and uses of God’s word: which is called his word, as proceeding from his mouth, and revealed by him to us; his way, as prescribed by him for us to walk in; his law, as binding us to obedience, his statutes, as declaring his authority and power of giving us laws, his precepts, as declaring and directing our duty; his ordinances, as ordained and appointed by him; his righteousness, as exactly agreeable to God’s righteous nature and will; his judgments, as proceeding from the great Judge of the world, and being his judicial sentence to which all men must submit; and his testimonies, as it contains the witnesses of God’s mind and will, and of man’s duty. Nevertheless,

law—from a word meaning "to teach," is a term of rather general purport, denoting the instruction of God's Word. O FORSAKE ME NOT UTTERLY. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 0 ; הצליחה on the other hand is Milra according to the Masora and other ancient testimonies, and נא is not dageshed, without Norzi being able to state any reason for this different accentuation. in the law—according to it (compare Lu 1:6).
UNDEFILED IN THE WAY, WHO WALK IN THE LAW OF THE LORD. startxref The change from statements about others and about the Lord to more personal dealing with God begins in Psalm 119:3, and becomes more clear as we advance, till in the later verses the communion becomes most intense and soul moving. That rejected (disdained) corner-stone is nevertheless become ראשׁ פּנּהּ, i.e., the head-stone of the corner (Job 38:6), which being laid upon the corner, supports and protects the stately edifice - an emblem of the power and dignity to which Israel has attained in the midst of the peoples out of deep humiliation.

הושׁיעה is accented regularly on the penult., and draws the following נא towards itself by means of Dag. But such a "binding to" is unheard of.

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This celebrated Psalm has several peculiarities. 0000001835 00000 n In the prospect of answered prayer, yea, while the prayer is being answered the heart is full of thankfulness (Psalm 119:7), and is fixed in solemn resolve not to miss the blessing if the Lord will give enabling grace (Psalm 119:8).
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0000066903 00000 n Click Here to make an offering. O that every reader may feel the glow.

According to the Midrash, in Psalm 118:26 it is the people of Jerusalem who thus greet the pilgrims. It is not נפלאת but נפלאת, like הבאת in Genesis 33:11, קראת from קרא equals קרה in Deuteronomy 31:29; Jeremiah 44:23, קראת from קרא, to call, Isaiah 7:14. 03/09/12: Psalm 119: Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, He Psalm 119 The longest chapter of the Bible. Brit-Am depends on contributions alongside purchases of our publications.

walk—act in the law—according to it (compare Lu 1:6).

KEEP THY PRECEPTS DILIGENTLY. אנּא (six times אנּה) is, as in every other instance (vid., on Psalm 116:4), Milra. seven hundred and twelve) that the whole space of the court of the priests was full of them, and the binding of them consequently had to go on as far as to the horns of the altar. This Psalm contains the commendation of God’s word; David’s love to it; a prayer for grace to carry himself according to it; with an account of God’s law, institutions, commandments, testimonies, precepts, word, promises, ways, judgments, name, righteousness, truth, &c.; with a prayer for help and assistance. meaning thereby, that we eagerly desire to become such ourselves, and wish for no greater happiness than to be perfectly holy. No indeed, חג denotes the animals for the feast-offering, and there was so vast a number of these (according to Ezra loc.

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0000002420 00000 n Kurtz answers: "For the building which the heathen world considers it to be its life's mission and its mission in history to rear, viz., the Babel-tower of worldly power and worldly glory, they have neither been able nor willing to make use of Israel...." But this conjunction of ideas is devoid of scriptural support and without historical reality; for the empire of the world has set just as much value, according to political relations, upon the incorporation of Israel as upon that of every other people.

154 0 obj <> endobj In their way or course of life, which in Scripture is oft called a man’s way; or, 2. Each stanza contains eight verses, and the first letter of each verse is that which gives name to the stanza. 1. undefiled—literally, "complete," perfect, or sincere (compare Ps 37:37).

x�bbb`b``Ń3Υ�� �4 In the way; either, 1. [Psalms 119:3] THEY ALSO DO NO INIQUITY: But much as Luther's version, which follows the latter interpretation, "Adorn the feast with green branches even to the horns of the altar," accords with our German taste, it is still untenable; for אסר cannot signify to encircle with garlands and the like, nor would it be altogether suited to חג in this signification.

The first eight verses all begin with the letter Aleph. It is structured alphabetically with a stanza for each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet (“Aleph” is like our “A,” “Beth is like “B”, etc.

[Psalms 119:7] I WILL PRAISE THEE WITH

Hengstenberg and von Lengerke at least disconnect the words "unto the horns of the altar" from any relation to this precautionary measure, by interpreting: until it (the animal for the festal sacrifice) is raised upon the horns of the altar and sacrificed.

Did you benefit from it? This mountain God has made into a plain, and qualified Zerubbabel to bring forth the top and key-stone (האבן הראשׁה) out of its past concealment, and thus to complete the building, which is now consecrated amidst a loud outburst of incessant shouts of joy (Zechariah 4:7). (Note: In the language of the Jewish ritual Isru-chag is become the name of the after-feast day which follows the last day of the feast. It has a glorious history.). We can hear Isaiah 25:9 sounding through this passage, as above in Psalm 118:19., Isaiah 26:1. The lxx renders συστήσασθε ἑορτὴν ἐν τοῖς πυκάζουσιν, which is reproduced by the Psalterium Romanum: constituite diem solemnem in confrequentationibus, as Eusebius, Theodoret, and Chrysostom (although the last waveringly) also interpret it; on the other hand, it is rendered by the psalterium Gallicum: in condensis, as Apollinaris and Jerome (in frondosis) also understand it.


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