
Text -- Psalms 119:92 (NET)




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JFB -> Psa 119:92-94; Psa 119:92-94
JFB: Psa 119:92-94 - -- Hence the pious are encouraged and inclined to seek a knowledge of it, and persevere amidst the efforts of those planning and waiting to destroy them.
Hence the pious are encouraged and inclined to seek a knowledge of it, and persevere amidst the efforts of those planning and waiting to destroy them.

Plural, not merely delight, but equal to all other delights.
Clarke -> Psa 119:92
Clarke: Psa 119:92 - -- Unless thy law had been my delights - Had we not had the consolations of religion, we should long ago have died of a broken heart.
Unless thy law had been my delights - Had we not had the consolations of religion, we should long ago have died of a broken heart.
Calvin -> Psa 119:92
Calvin: Psa 119:92 - -- 92.Had not thy law been my delight The prophet continues to prosecute almost the same theme; affirming, that he would have been undone, had he not in...
92.Had not thy law been my delight The prophet continues to prosecute almost the same theme; affirming, that he would have been undone, had he not in his calamities sought consolation from the law of God. The adverb,
TSK -> Psa 119:92
TSK: Psa 119:92 - -- thy law : Psa 119:24, Psa 119:77, Psa 119:143; Rom 15:4
I should : Psa 27:13, Psa 94:18, Psa 94:19; Pro 6:22, Pro 6:23
thy law : Psa 119:24, Psa 119:77, Psa 119:143; Rom 15:4
I should : Psa 27:13, Psa 94:18, Psa 94:19; Pro 6:22, Pro 6:23

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Barnes -> Psa 119:92
Barnes: Psa 119:92 - -- Unless thy law had been my delights - See Psa 119:16, note; Psa 119:24, note. Unless I had had pleasure in thy law, thy word, thy truth; unless...
Unless thy law had been my delights - See Psa 119:16, note; Psa 119:24, note. Unless I had had pleasure in thy law, thy word, thy truth; unless I had derived support and consolation in that.
I should then have perished in mine affliction - I should have sunk under my burden. I should not have been able to hold up under the weight of sorrow and trial. How often the people of God can say. this! How often may each one in the course of his life say this! "I should have sunk a thousand times,"said a most excellent, but much afflicted, man to me, "if it had not been for one declaration in the word of God - ‘ The Eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.’ "
Poole -> Psa 119:92
Poole: Psa 119:92 - -- Then at the very instant; I could not have outlived one stroke of thine afflicting hand.
Then at the very instant; I could not have outlived one stroke of thine afflicting hand.
Gill -> Psa 119:92
Gill: Psa 119:92 - -- Unless thy law had been my delights,.... Not the law of works, the voice of words, which they that heard entreated they might hear no more; which is ...
Unless thy law had been my delights,.... Not the law of works, the voice of words, which they that heard entreated they might hear no more; which is terrible, and works wrath in the conscience; is a cursing and damning law to the transgressors of it; and so not delightful, unless as considered in the hands of Christ, the fulfilling end of it: but the law of faith, the doctrine of faith, or of justification by the righteousness of Christ, received by faith, which yields peace, joy, and comfort, even in tribulation: or the whole doctrine of the Gospel, the law of the Messiah, the isles waited for; the doctrine of peace, pardon, righteousness, and eternal life by Christ, which is exceeding delightful to sensible sinners;
I should then have perished in mine affliction; referring to some particular time of affliction he was pressed with, either through the persecution of Saul, or the conspiracy of Absalom which was very great and heavy upon him, so that he almost despaired of deliverance from it; and must have perished, not eternally, but as to his comforts: his heart would have fainted in him, and he would have sunk under the weight of the affliction, had it not been for the relief he had from the word of God, the doctrines and promises of it; he was like one in a storm, tossed with tempests, one wave after another beat upon him, and rolled over him, when he thought himself just perishing; and must have given all over for lost, had it not been for the delight and pleasure he found in reading and meditating on the sacred writings.

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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 119:89-96
MHCC: Psa 119:89-96 - --The settling of God's word in heaven, is opposed to the changes and revolutions of the earth. And the engagements of God's covenant are established mo...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 119:92
Matthew Henry: Psa 119:92 - -- Here is, 1. The great distress that David was in. He was in affliction, and ready to perish in his affliction, not likely to die, so much as likel...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 119:89-96
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 119:89-96 - --
The eightfold Lamed . Eternal and imperishable in the constant verifying of itself is the vigorous and consolatory word of God, to which the poet w...
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...
