{"id":8418,"date":"2023-09-05T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=8418"},"modified":"2023-09-05T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:52:47","slug":"psalm-119105-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=8418","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 119:105-112"},"content":{"rendered":"

NUN<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
\n

105\u00a0<\/sup>Your word is a lamp to my feet<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd a light to my path.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

106 <\/sup>I have sworn and confirmed<\/span><\/em>
\nThat I will keep Your righteous judgments.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

107 <\/sup>I am afflicted very much;<\/span><\/em>
\nRevive me, O Lord<\/span>, according to Your word.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

108 <\/sup>Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord<\/span>,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd teach me Your judgments.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

109 <\/sup>My life is continually in my hand,<\/span><\/em>
\nYet I do not forget Your law.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

110 <\/sup>The wicked have laid a snare for me,<\/span><\/em>
\nYet I have not strayed from Your precepts.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

111 <\/sup>Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever,<\/span><\/em>
\nFor they are the rejoicing of my heart.<\/span><\/em>
\n<\/span><\/h3>\n

112\u00a0<\/sup>I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes<\/span><\/em>
\nForever, to the very end.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Here, the psalmist vows to follow God’s Word no matter what happens.<\/h3>\n

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. …<\/span><\/h3>\n

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. \u2014 Morgan, pages 239-240.<\/span><\/h3>\n

__________<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

“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<\/span><\/a>); directed Him in difficulties (v.108); supported His faith (v.109); and delivered Him from the snares of His enemies (v.110). \u2014 Williams, page 395.<\/span><\/h3>\n

__________<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Extending from the notion, emphasized in the previous section, that “all things are God’s servants” (v.91<\/span><\/a>) 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<\/em> of God’s (and hence His people’s) triumph over all the wicked (v.110)\u2014i.e., that time when God’s victory, which was already revealed on the heels of the enemies first salvo (see Genesis 3:15<\/span><\/a>) 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. \u2014 Wechsler, page 286.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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