
Text -- Psalms 119:155 (NET)




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Clarke -> Psa 119:155; Psa 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked - There is no hope of their conversion

For they seek not thy statutes - And they who do not seek, shall not find.
Calvin -> Psa 119:155
Calvin: Psa 119:155 - -- 155.Safety is far from the wicked Fully persuaded that the world is governed by the secret providence of God, who is a just judge, the Prophet draws ...
155.Safety is far from the wicked Fully persuaded that the world is governed by the secret providence of God, who is a just judge, the Prophet draws from that source the doctrine, That the wicked are far removed from safety, and safety from them. Hence proceeds the confidence of prayer; for as God is turned away from the despisers of his word, so he is ready to succor his servants. It is to be noticed, that when the Prophet saw that his enemies were elated by their prosperity, he on the contrary lifted up his heart by faith that thus he might come to the settled persuasion that all their delights were cursed and tended to destruction. Whenever then the wicked prosper in the world according to their wishes, so that being pampered to the full they exult in their own fatness, let us learn, in order to defend ourselves, to lay hold upon this buckler which the Holy Spirit is holding out to us, namely, that they shall at length miserably perish, because they seek not the commandments of God. From this we draw a contrary doctrine, That although genuine believers, whilst they walk sincerely in the fear of God may be as sheep appointed to the slaughter, yet their salvation, which is under the special care and protection of God’s secret providence, is just at hand. In this sense the Prophet adds in the following verse,
TSK -> Psa 119:155
TSK: Psa 119:155 - -- Salvation : Psa 18:27; Job 5:4; Isa 46:12, Isa 57:19; Eph 2:17, Eph 2:18
for they : Psa 10:4; Job 21:14, Job 21:15; Pro 1:7; Luk 16:24; Rom 3:11

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Barnes -> Psa 119:155
Barnes: Psa 119:155 - -- Salvation is far from the wicked - That is, (a) in their present course: they are very far from being safe, or from having a prospect of salvat...
Salvation is far from the wicked - That is,
(a) in their present course: they are very far from being safe, or from having a prospect of salvation;
(b) they are constantly going farther and farther off - making their salvation less probable - not going toward heaven, but from it.
© Destruction is very near to them, and they are constantly making it nearer and nearer.
(d) In their present course it may be said that salvation is far - is infinitely remote - from them, so that they can never come to it.
(e) If they would be saved, they must change their course altogether, and go "toward"salvation and not from it.
For they seek not thy statutes - They do not regard thy law; they do not make it a principle to obey thy commandments.
Poole -> Psa 119:155
Poole: Psa 119:155 - -- Ver. 155. And therefore, on the contrary, I trust that thou wilt save me because I do seek them. My wicked enemies shall certainly be destroyed, by w...
Ver. 155. And therefore, on the contrary, I trust that thou wilt save me because I do seek them. My wicked enemies shall certainly be destroyed, by which means I shall be delivered.
Gill -> Psa 119:155
Gill: Psa 119:155 - -- Salvation is far from the wicked,.... Christ, the author of salvation, is far from them: he was far from the unbelieving Jews, even though salvation ...
Salvation is far from the wicked,.... Christ, the author of salvation, is far from them: he was far from the unbelieving Jews, even though salvation was of them, and he, the Saviour, was among them; and he is far from all unconverted persons, as to knowledge of him, faith in him, or love to him; and from all those that seek for salvation elsewhere, let them make ever such pretences to religion: the word of salvation is far from them, as Kimchi; the Gospel of salvation, which they put away from them, as the Jews did in the times of Christ and the apostles; an experimental knowledge of salvation, a sense of need of it, and an application of it, are far from them; and the enjoyment of it in heaven, which, though nearer the saints than when they first believed, is far off from the wicked, and whose damnation is near: Aben Ezra interprets it,
"the days of salvation;''
for they seek not thy statutes; either to know them, or keep them: they seek not after God, to know him, his mind and will; the language of their hearts and actions is, "depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways"; no, not of life and salvation, and therefore it must be far from them, Job 21:14.

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 119:1-176
TSK Synopsis: Psa 119:1-176 - --1 This psalm contains sundry prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
MHCC -> Psa 119:153-160
MHCC: Psa 119:153-160 - --The closer we cleave to the word of God, both as our rule and as our stay, the more assurance we have of deliverance. Christ is the Advocate of his pe...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 119:155
Matthew Henry: Psa 119:155 - -- Here is, 1. The description of wicked men. They do not only do God's statutes, but they do not so much as seek them; they do not acquaint themselves...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 119:153-160
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 119:153-160 - --
The eightfold Resh . Because God cannot suffer those who are faithful to His word to succumb, he supplicates His help against his persecutors. ר×...
Constable: Psa 107:1--150:6 - --V. Book 5: chs. 107--150
There are 44 psalms in this section of the Psalter. David composed 15 of these (108-110...

Constable: Psa 119:1-176 - --Psalm 119
The anonymous psalmist who wrote this longest psalm sought refuge from his persecutors and fou...
