the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Psalms 119:8
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I will obey your decrees. Please don't give up on me!
I will observe thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
I will observe your statutes: Oh don't forsake me completely.
I will obey your demands, so please don't ever leave me.
I will keep your statutes. Do not completely abandon me!
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
I shall keep Your statutes; Do not utterly abandon me [when I fail].
I will keep your statutes; do not utterly forsake me!
I schal kepe thi iustifiyngis; forsake thou not me on ech side.
I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
I will obey all of them! Don't turn your back on me.
I will observe thy statutes: Oh forsake me not utterly.
I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.
I will observe your laws; don't completely abandon me!
I will keep thy statutes: forsake me not utterly.
I will obey your laws, so please don't leave me!
I will observe Thy statutes; O forsake me not utterly.
I will keepe thy statutes: O forsake me not vtterly.
I will obey Your Law. Do not leave me all alone.
I will observe your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
I will keepe thy statutes: forsake mee not ouerlong.
I will keep thy statutes; O forsake me not utterly.
I will obey your laws; never abandon me!
Thy statutes, will I keep, Do not thou forsake me utterly.
(118-8) I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me.
I will observe thy statutes; O forsake me not utterly!
I wyll kepe thy statutes: [wherfore] forsake me not for any long tyme.
I will keep thine ordinances: O forsake me not greatly.
I will keep your statutes;never abandon me.
I will observe your statutes. Don't utterly forsake me.
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
I will heed your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
I will keep Your Statutes; do not forsake me utterly.
Thy statutes I keep, leave me not utterly!
I wil kepe thy statutes, o forsake me not vtterly.
I will keep Your statutes; Do not utterly abandon me!
I will keep Your statutes; Oh, do not forsake me utterly!
I shall keep Your statutes; Do not forsake me utterly!
I shall keep Your statutes;Do not forsake me utterly!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I will: Psalms 119:16, Psalms 119:106, Psalms 119:115, Joshua 24:15
O forsake: Psalms 119:116, Psalms 119:117, Psalms 119:176, Psalms 38:21, Psalms 38:22, Psalms 51:11, Philippians 4:13
Reciprocal: Psalms 119:33 - I shall keep Jeremiah 39:7 - chains
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I will keep thy statutes,.... This is a resolution taken up in the strength of divine grace, to answer the end of learning the judgments of God; which he did, not merely to have a notional knowledge of them, but to put them in practice; and not that he thought he could perfectly keep them, but was desirous of observing them in the best manner he could, as assisted by the grace of God; from love to God, in the faith and name of Christ, and with a view to the glory of God; without dependence upon them for life and salvation;
O forsake me not utterly; totally and finally, or not at all; otherwise as if he should say, I shall never be able to keep thy statutes; so sensible was he of the necessity of the divine Presence and grace, to assist him in the observance of them: or, "for ever", as Ben Balaam interprets it, and so the Ethiopic version; R. Moses reads the words, "O forsake me not", in a parenthesis, and joins the rest thus, "I will keep thy statutes vehemently"; or with all my strength and might; and so Kimchi reads them: but such an interpretation is very forced, and contrary to the accents.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will keep thy statutes - Thy commands; thy laws. This expresses the firm purpose of the psalmist, He meant to keep the law of God; he could confidently say that he would do it - yet coupled with the prayer which follows, that God would not forsake him.
O forsake me not utterly - Hebrew, “To very much;” so as to leave me to myself. His confidence that he would keep the commandments of God was based on the prayer that God would not leave him. There is no other ground of persuasion that we shall be able to keep the commandments of God than that which rests on the belief and the hope that He will not leave us.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:8. O forsake me not utterly. — עד מאד ad meod, "to utter dereliction;" never leave me to my own strength, nor to my own heart!
ANALYSIS OF LETTER ALEPH. - First Division
I. In this first octonary the prophet commends to us the law of God, and persuades us to practise it by two arguments: 1. Happiness, Psalms 119:1-2. 2. The excellence of the Lawgiver, Psalms 119:4.
II. He shows his affection to this law, desiring grace to keep it, Psalms 119:5.
On which he knew there would follow two effects:
1. Peace of conscience: "He should not be ashamed," c.
2. Thankfulness to God for his teaching, Psalms 119:7.
"Blessed are they who are undefiled in the way," c.
"Blessed are they who keep his testimonies," &c.
"They also do no iniquity," &c.
I. The first argument used by the prophet to persuade men to obedience is blessedness. He that would be happy must be obedient and his obedience, if true, may be thus discerned: -
1. "He must be undefiled in the way." Keep himself from sin.
2. "He must walk in the law of the Lord," c. Which is the rule of our faith, life, and worship.
3. "He must keep his testimonies." Search them out in God's word.
4. "He must seek him with a whole heart." With sincerity search his law to the utmost, both what it bids, and what it forbids, in order to know the mind of the Lawgiver.
5. "They also do no iniquity." They work no iniquity with 1. Purpose of heart 2. Delight 3. With perseverance; 4. Nor at all, when the heart is fully sanctified unto God; Christ dwelling in it by faith.
6. They walk in his way, which the wicked do not: but the righteous have taken it for their path through life; and should they at any time swerve from it, they come back by repentance and confession to God.
The prophet's second argument to persuade to obedience is the authority of the Lawgiver. All disobedience proceeds either from contempt of God's laws, or rebellion against them: but David brings to our mind the authority of the Lawgiver, from a consideration of who he is who commands our obedience as his servants: "Thou hast commanded that we keep,' c.
1. Thou, who knowest when we err, and wilt punish us.
2. Hast commanded - absolutely enjoined.
3. That we keep, c. - they cannot be dispensed with.
4. Diligently, &c. Not negligently or lazily, or Satan will take advantage of us.
II. The blessedness promised to the keepers of God's law moved the prophet to send forth this ardent prayer, "O that my ways," &c.
1. David was a great king, and yet desires to be obedient.
2. He answers God's command by a prayer, to be enabled to perform it by his grace.
3. "O that my ways," &c. My counsels, actions, &c., were conformable to the straitness and regularity of thy law.
4. He knew he could not be too closely united to God, and therefore he prays to be directed.
Which prayer he knew God would hear and that the effect would be quietness of soul, and boldness at a throne of grace.
1. "Then shall I not be confounded," c. If his heart were right with God, he should not fly from him, as did Adam: that was the effect of disobedience.
2. If God directed his ways to the keeping of his commandments, he should find no amazement in his conscience, but holy boldness.
And this effect will produce another fruit, a thankful heart.
1. "I will praise thee." Give thee thanks for they grace and assistance.
2. "With uprightness of heart." Not with his tongue only, but with an honest and upright heart.
3. But this could not be done till God had taught him: "I will praise thee when I shall have learned," &c. Not to know them only with my understanding, but to make them the rule of my life, which cannot be but by the influence of the Spirit of GOD.
And what follows upon this will be a firm purpose of heart to be obedient to God's laws.
1. "I will keep thy statutes." So am I fully resolved and decreed with myself. And it is a great help to godliness to resolve to live a godly life for how shall that be performed which is not purposed.
2. And yet this purpose or conclusion he makes in God's strength and therefore constantly prays: "O forsake me not utterly." Without thy aid I can do nothing: but if at any time in thy just judgment thou desert me, that I may know and feel my own weakness, and learn the better to fly to thee, let it not be an utter desertion. Forsake me not, neither too much nor too long.
