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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:142 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 119:142 |
King James |
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. |
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] |
The principles of God's government are permanent and reliable, and in the deepest distress His people find them a theme of delightful meditation and a source of reviving power (Psa 119:17, Psa 119:116).
law is the truth--It therefore cannot deceive as to its promises.
everlasting-- (Psa 111:3), though to outward appearance seeming dead. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness - It never changes. The principles of thy law, of thy government, and of thy method of saving people, are the same under all dispensations, in every land, in all worlds; and they will remain the same forever. Human governments change. Old dynasties pass away. New laws are enacted under new administrations. Customs change. Opinions change. People change. The world changes. But as God himself never changes, so it is with his law. That law is founded on eternal truth, and can never change.
And thy law is the truth - It is founded on "truth;" on the reality of things. It is so essentially founded on truth, it springs so certainly out of truth, or out of the reality of things, that it may be said to be the truth itself. He who understands the law of God understands what truth is, for it is the expression and the exponent of that which is true. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Everlasting - The same in all ages and places. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness - The word צדק tsedek is a word of very extensive meaning in the Bible. It signifies, not only God's inherent righteousness and perfection of nature, but also his method of treating others; his plan of redemption; his method of saving others. And the word δικαιοσυνη, which answers to it, in the Septuagint and in the New Testament, is used with the same latitude of meaning, and in the same sense; particularly in that remarkable passage, Rom 3:25-26 (note), where see the notes. Thy merciful method of dealing with sinners and justifying the ungodly will last as long as the earth lasts; and thy law that witnesses this, in all its pages, is the truth. |
3 His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
17 GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.