SEV Biblia, Chapter 119:144
Justicia eterna son tus testimonios; dame entendimiento, y viviré.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 118:144
Verse 144. The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting ] Thy moral law was not made for one people, or for one particular time; it is as imperishable as thy nature, and of endless obligation. It is that law by which all the children of Adam shall be Judged. Give me understanding ] To know and practice it.
And I shall live. ] Shall glorify thee, and live eternally; not for the merit of having done it, but because thou didst fulfill the work of the law in my heart, having saved me from condemnation by it.
ANALYSIS OF LETTER TSADDI. - EIGHTEENTH DIVISION In this division the psalmist: - I. Commends the law of God, from its Author, its equity, its purity, and its perpetuity.
II. A consideration of which led him to love and delight in it, though opposed by many enemies.
I. 1. "Righteous art thou." Thou alterest not with times, thou changest not with persons, thou art ever the same.
2. Thy judgments, in giving rewards and dispensing punishments, are upright.
3. Thy testimonies, that declare this, are righteous and faithful.
He consequently felt an ardent zeal for God's glory.
1. This "zeal consumed him," and he expresses the cause.
2. Men "forgot God's words." He pined away for grief on this account.
He turns to another character of God's law.
"Thy word is very pure." 1. It is pure in itself, and the purifier of the heart.
2. On this account he loved it; and we know that "love is the fulfilling of the law." A third effect was a careful remembrance of it, though tried by his enemies.
1. "I am small." Of no weight nor authority; have no secular power.
2. "Despised." Have no credit nor respect.
3. "Yet do I not forget thy precepts." Nothing can move me while upheld by thee; and thou wilt uphold me while I cleave unto thee.
A fourth commendation of God's law is its immutability.
1. It is immutable, and can never be dispensed with. It is a righteousness that is everlasting.
2. It is the truth: 1. It has priority of all laws; 2. Contains no falsehood.
3. Its promises and threatenings shall all be punctually fulfilled.
II. He loved and delighted in it, notwithstanding he had trouble and anguish.
1. Trouble and anguish. The righteous are often under the cross.
2. Yet "thy commandments are my delights." While faithful to thee, all my afflictions are sanctified to me, so that I can rejoice while I suffer.
He speaks again about the immutability of God's word.
1. "The righteousness of thy testimonies," Thy word is like thyself, for it comes from thee.
2. "Give me understanding." I always stand in need of teaching.
3. "And I shall live." All is death without thee. Live in me, that I may live by thee.
LETTER Q KOPH. - NINETEENTH DIVISION
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 137-144 - God never did, and never can do wrong to any. The promises ar faithfully performed by Him that made them. Zeal against sin shoul constrain us to do what we can against it, at least to do more i religion ourselves. Our love to the word of God is evidence of our love to God, because it is designed to make us partake his holiness. Men' real excellency always makes them low in their own eyes. When we ar small and despised, we have the more need to remember God's precepts that we may have them to support us. The law of God is the truth, the standard of holiness, the rule of happiness; but the obedience of Christ alone justifies the believer. Sorrows are often the lot of saints in this vale of tears; they are in heaviness through manifol temptations. There are delights in the word of God, which the saint often most sweetly enjoy when in trouble and anguish. This is lif eternal, to know God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, Joh 17:3. Ma we live the life of faith and grace here, and be removed to the life of glory hereafter.
Original Hebrew
צדק 6664 עדותיך 5715 לעולם 5769 הבינני 995 ואחיה׃ 2421
