Psalms 119:97-104 MEM
Oh, how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
(98) You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies;
For they are ever with me.
(99) I have more understanding than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
(100) I understand more than the ancients,
Because I keep Your precepts.
(101) I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
That I may keep Your word.
(102) I have not departed from Your judgments,
For You Yourself have taught me.
(103) How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
(104) Through Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.
Keywords of God’s Law: Law, Commandments, Testimonies, Precepts, Word, Judgments,
While reading through this section of Psalms 119, a hint of a New Testament truth popped out… Can you see it? Past. Present. Future.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
(Hebrews 13:8 NKJV)
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.