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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:118 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 119:118 |
Strong Concordance |
Thou hast trodden down [05541] all them that err [07686] from thy statutes [02706]: for their deceit [08649] is falsehood [08267]. |
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King James |
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
But the disobedient and rebellious will be visited by God's wrath, which impresses the pious with wholesome fear and awe.
their deceit is falsehood--that is, all their cunning deceit, wherewith they seek to entrap the godly, is in vain. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes - Compare the notes at Psa 119:21. Rather, "Thou hast made light of," or "thou despisest." The Hebrew word means properly to suspend in a balance; to weigh. Then it means to lift up lightly or easily; and then, to make light of; to contemn; to regard anything as "light." The Septuagint and Latin Vulgate render it, "Thou dost despise." That is, God regards them as of no account; as a light substance of no value; as chaff which the wind carries away. Compare Job 21:18; Psa 1:4; Psa 35:5; Isa 17:13.
For their deceit is falsehood - This seems to be a truism - for deceit must imply falsehood. In the original this is an emphatic way of declaring the whole thing to be false, as the Hebrew language often expresses emphasis by mere repetition - thus "pits, pits," meaning many pits. The psalmist first characterizes their conduct as deceitful - as that which cannot be relied on - as that which must fail in the end; he then speaks of this system on which they acted as altogether a "lie" - as that which is utterly "false;" thus giving, as it were, a double emphasis to the statement, and showing how utterly delusive and vain it must be. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Deceit - Their deceitful devices, shall bring that destruction upon themselves which they design for others. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Thou hast trodden down - All thy enemies will be finally trodden down under thy feet.
Their deceit is falsehood - Their elevation is a lie. The wicked often become rich and great, and affect to be happy, but it is all false; they have neither a clean nor approving conscience. Nor can they have thy approbation; and, consequently, no true blessedness. |
13 The nations [03816] shall rush [07582] like the rushing [07588] of many [07227] waters [04325]: but God shall rebuke [01605] them, and they shall flee [05127] far off [04801], and shall be chased [07291] as the chaff [04671] of the mountains [02022] before [06440] the wind [07307], and like a rolling thing [01534] before [06440] the whirlwind [05492].
5 Let them be as chaff [04671] before [06440] the wind [07307]: and let the angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] chase [01760] them.
4 The ungodly [07563] are not so: but are like the chaff [04671] which the wind [07307] driveth away [05086].
18 They are as stubble [08401] before [06440] the wind [07307], and as chaff [04671] that the storm [05492] carrieth away [01589].
21 Thou hast rebuked [01605] the proud [02086] that are cursed [0779], which do err [07686] from thy commandments [04687].