the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Psalms 119:54
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Your decrees have been the theme of my songs wherever I have lived.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
I sing about your demands wherever I live.
Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Your statutes have been my songs, In the house where I live.
Your statutes are my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.
Thi iustifiyngis weren delitable to me to be sungun; in the place of my pilgrimage.
Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
No matter where I am, your teachings fill me with songs.
Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
Your laws have become my songs wherever I make my home.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Your laws are the songs I sing wherever I am living.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Thy statutes haue bin my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Your Laws are my songs in whatever house I stay.
Your statutes have been my songs wherever I make my home.
Thy statutes haue beene my songes in the house of my pilgrimage.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
During my brief earthly life I compose songs about your commands.
Songs, have thy statutes become to me, in my house of sojourn.
(118-54) Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Thy statutes haue ben [my] songes: in the house of my pilgrimages.
Thine ordinances were my songs in the place of my sojourning.
Your statutes are the theme of my songduring my earthly life.
Your statutes have been my songs, In the house where I live.
Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.
Your Statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimages.
Songs have been to me Thy statutes, In the house of my sojournings.
Thy statutes are my songes in the house of my pilgremage.
Your statutes are my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
Your statutes are my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
Your statutes have become my songsIn the house of my sojourning.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 89:1, Psalms 10:1, Genesis 47:9, Hebrews 11:13-16
Reciprocal: Psalms 19:8 - rejoicing Psalms 39:12 - for I am Psalms 118:15 - voice Proverbs 6:22 - General Colossians 3:16 - and spiritual 1 Peter 2:11 - as
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. Meaning either his unsettled state, fleeing from place to place before Saul; or, literally, his house of cedar, his court and palace, which he considered no other than as an inn he had put into upon his travels homeward; or rather the earthly house of his tabernacle, in which, as long as he continued, he was but a pilgrim and stranger; or, best of all, the whole course of his life; which Jacob calls the days of the years of his pilgrimage, Genesis 47:9; so Hipparchus the Pythagorean i calls this life a sort of a pilgrimage; and Plato also. This world is not the saints house and home; this is not their rest and residence; they confess themselves pilgrims and strangers here; and that they belong to another city, and a better country, an heavenly one, which they are seeking and travelling to, Hebrews 11:13. And as travellers sing songs to themselves as they pass on, which makes the way the more easy and pleasant to them, so the psalmist had his songs which he sung in his pilgrimage state; and these were the statutes, or word of the Lord, and the things in it, which were as delightful to him as the songs of travellers to them. Or the songs he made and sung were composed out of the word of God; and which may serve to recommend the psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, made by him, the sweet psalmist of Israel, to the Gospel churches, to be sung by them, Ephesians 5:19.
i De Anim. Tranquill. inter Fragm. Pythagor. p. 11. Ed. Gale.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thy statutes - Thy law; thy commandments.
Have been my songs - Have been to me a source of joy; have been my happiness, my consolation, my delight. I have found pleasure in meditating on them; I have had peace and joy in them in the day of loneliness and trouble. The psalmist rejoiced, doubtless, as the good now do,
(a) in law itself; law, as a rule of order; law, as a guide of conduct; law, as a security for safety;
(b) in such a law as that of God - so pure, so holy, so suited to promote “the happiness of man;
(c) in the stability of that law, as constituting his own personal security, the ground of his hope;
(d) in law in its influence on the universe, preserving order, and securing harmony.
In the house of my pilgrimage - In my life considered as a journey to another world; in my pilgrimage through the desert of this world; amidst rocks, and sands, and desolation; among tribes of savage men, wanderers, robbers, freebooters; with no home, no place of shelter; exposed to cold, and rain, and sleet, and ice, and snow, as pilgrims are - for to all these is the “pilgrim” - the way-farer - exposed, and all these represent the condition of one passing through this world to a better (compare Hebrews 11:13). Here, says the psalmist, I sang. I found joy in these scenes by thinking on the pure law - the pure and holy truth of God. I comforted myself with the feeling that there “is” law; that there is just government; that there is a God; that I am under the protection of law; that I am not alone, but that there is one who guides me by his truth. Compare the notes at Job 35:10. See Acts 16:25; Psalms 34:1.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:54. Thy statutes have been my songs — During our captivity all our consolation was derived from singing thy praises, and chanting among our fellow-captives portions of thy law, and the precepts it contains.
