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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:158 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 119:158 |
King James |
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. |
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] |
(Compare Psa 119:136).
transgressors--or, literally, "traitors," who are faithless to a righteous sovereign and side with His enemies (compare Psa 25:3, Psa 25:8). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
I beheld the transgressors - Those who wronged me; those who violated the law of God.
And was grieved - Or, "sickened." The word used here means commonly to loathe, to nauseate, to sicken. Eze 16:47; Psa 95:10. I was made sad, sorry, sick at heart. I did not look on them with anger; I did not desire to take revenge upon them; I did not return evil for evil. My heart was sad that people would do wrong; that they would expose themselves to such danger. See the notes at Psa 119:136.
Because they kept not thy word - Because they violated thy law; because they were sinners. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved - Literally, I was affected with anguish. |
8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.