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مزامير 119:21
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
rebuked: Psalms 119:78, Psalms 138:6, Exodus 10:3, Exodus 18:11, Job 40:11, Job 40:12, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 10:12, Ezekiel 28:2-10, Daniel 4:37, Daniel 5:22-24, Malachi 4:1, Luke 14:11, Luke 18:14, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5
cursed: Psalms 119:10, Psalms 119:110, Psalms 119:118, Deuteronomy 27:15-26, Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 30:19, Nehemiah 9:16, Nehemiah 9:29, Isaiah 42:24, Isaiah 43:28, Jeremiah 44:9-11, Jeremiah 44:16, Jeremiah 44:28, Jeremiah 44:29, Galatians 3:13
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:26 - Cursed Deuteronomy 28:45 - because Psalms 37:22 - cursed Psalms 40:4 - respecteth Psalms 119:51 - proud Psalms 119:122 - let not Jeremiah 43:2 - all the Matthew 25:41 - ye cursed James 5:19 - err
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou hast rebuked the proud,.... Which some understand of the fallen angels, who, in proud wrath, left their habitations, because they would not be subject to the Son of God in human nature; wherefore he scattered them in the imaginations of their hearts, and cast down these mighty ones into hell, where they are reserved in chains of darkness to the judgment of the great day. Others of the Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's time, this psalm being suited, as is thought, to Gospel times; who were proud of their own righteousness, and despised others less holy than themselves; and submitted not to the righteousness of Christ, whom he often rebuked, and at last punished. Rather all proud atheistical persons, profane and wicked men, are meant; who, Pharaoh like, say, who is the Lord that we should obey him? who reckon, their tongues to be their own, and employ them both against God and men, and regard neither: these God resists, sets himself against, and sooner or later severely punishes; for in the things they deal proudly he is above them, Exodus 18:11;
[that are] cursed which do err from thy commandments; according to the law of God, being transgressors of it, and will hear the awful sentence, "go, ye cursed", Matthew 25:41. The Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, join this with the next clause: "cursed are they which do err from thy commandments"; from the way of them, not observing them; from the end of them, Christ, not looking to him for righteousness.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou hast rebuked the proud - Compare Psalms 9:5. The meaning is, that God had done this not by word but by deed. The proud were everywhere rebuked by God, alike in his law, and in his providence. The connection seems to be this: the psalmist is meditating on the benefit or advantage of keeping the law of God; of a humble, pious life. His mind naturally adverts to what would be the opposite of this - or to this in contrast with an opposite course of life; and he says, therefore, that God had in every way, and at all times, manifested his displeasure against that class of people. Such a course, therefore, must be attended with misery; but the course which he proposed to pursue must be attended with happiness.
That are cursed - The accursed; those who are regarded and treated by God as accursed, or as objects of his disapprobation.
Which do err from thy commandments - Who depart from thy law. The sense is, “I propose and intend to keep thy law. As a motive to this, I look at the consequences which must follow from disobeying it. I see it everywhere in the divine treatment of those who do disregard that law. They are subject to the displeasure - the solemn rebuke - of God. So all must be who disregard his law; and it is my purpose not to be found among their number.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:21. Thou hast rebuked the proud — This was done often in the case of David; and was true also in reference to the Babylonians, who held the Israelites in subjection, and whose kings were among the proudest of human beings. Instead of זדים zedim, the proud, some MSS. read זרים zarim, strangers, and one reads גוים goyim, the heathen; and so the Syriac.