Psalm 119:105-112

¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn and confirmed
That I will keep Your righteous judgments.

¹⁰⁷ I am afflicted very much;
Revive me, O Lord, according to Your word.

¹⁰⁸ Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord,
And teach me Your judgments.

¹⁰⁹ My life is continually in my hand,
Yet I do not forget Your law.

¹¹⁰ The wicked have laid a snare for me,
Yet I have not strayed from Your precepts.

¹¹¹ Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever,
For they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¹¹² I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes
Forever, to the very end.

Here, the psalmist vows to follow God’s Word no matter what happens.

The psalmist is thinking of himself as a pilgrim passing through a world of darkness in which it would be easy for him to miss he way. On such a pilgrimage the revealed will of his God is a lamp and a light. …

It ends with a declaration … of complete abandonment to the will of God, His testimonies being taken as a heritage; and the heart of the trusting soul being bent toward the statutes for ever, even unto the end. — Morgan, pages 239-240.

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“My life … in my hand”means to be in deadly danger. Messiah records that throughout this experience of suffering and danger the Word of God kept Him alive (v.107); set Him a-singing (v.108 with Hebrews 13:15); directed Him in difficulties (v.108); supported His faith (v.109); and delivered Him from the snares of His enemies (v.110). — Williams, page 395.

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Extending from the notion, emphasized in the previous section, that “all things are God’s servants” (v.91) and constrained by His sovereign purposes, the psalmist here focuses on the specific culmination of those purposes not only in the revivifying and preservation of God’s servants (s vs. 107: “Revive me …”; 116-117: “Sustain me … Uphold me …”), but also, ultimately, in the manifestation of God’s (and hence His people’s) triumph over all the wicked (v.110)—i.e., that time when God’s victory, which was already revealed on the heels of the enemies first salvo (see Genesis 3:15) and secured even prior to that by the priestly work of Christ (see Revelation 13:8), will finally be expressed within creation upon the physical advent of the divine Messiah to His throne in Jerusalem. — Wechsler, page 286.