Psalms 119:65-72 TETH
You have dealt well with Your servant,
O LORD, according to Your word.
(66) Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
For I believe Your commandments.
(67) Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.
(68) You are good, and do good;
Teach me Your statutes.
(69) The proud have forged a lie against me,
But I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.
(70) Their heart is as fat as grease,
But I delight in Your law.
(71) It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
That I may learn Your statutes.
(72) The law of Your mouth is better to me
Than thousands of coins of gold and silver.
Keywords of God’s Law: Word, Judgment, Knowledge, Commandments, Statutes, Precepts, Law,
Somewhere and somehow, we need to learn how to put God first and keep him in his elevated position.
Please notice the Psalmist closes this segment with about wealth. Where did he learn the importance of putting God first, if God gives him the ability to earn great wealth, then so be it. But nothing here will turn me back from putting God first – and not the acquiring of wealth.
Psalms 119 Explanation: Psalms 119 is the longest chapter in the bible. But remember. Psalms contain individual writings from multiple sources, so each “chapter” is like an eBook. Most psalms are better read as one would a poem. Break the chapter into small subsections of a sentence, and you’ll get the idea.
B.C. 444, This Psalm, which was probably composed by Ezra, is another of the alphabetical Psalms. It consists of twenty-two parts, answering to the number of the Hebrew letters, every part being divided into eight verses, and each verse beginning with that letter which forms the title of the part; that is, the first part of eight verses with א, the second with ב, etc. It is an elegant, important, and useful composition, the chief subjects of which are the excellence of God’s laws and the happiness of those who observe them.
Each psalm references God’s Word using many phrases and words:
Law, Testimonies, Precepts, Commandments, Statues, etc.