Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
11. have I hid ] Better as R.V. have I laid up, stored up and treasured in my heart as a safeguard against sin. Cp. Job 23:12; Pro 2:1; Pro 7:1; Jer 31:33.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Thy word have I hid in mine heart – Compare the notes at Psa 37:31. The word rendered hid means properly to conceal, so that a thing may be secret, private, inaccessible; then, to lay up in private, to treasure up. to hoard – as money or jewels – commonly hidden from public view. Job 20:26; Psa 17:14. Then it means to lay up in ones heart, as a secret, inaccessible place; to hide ones thoughts; purposes, designs; or to lay up knowledge or wisdom in the heart as a treasure, Job 10:13; Pro 2:1; Pro 7:1. The meaning here is, that he had treasured up the word of God, as the most valuable thing, in his heart; it was there, though unseen; it constituted the secret power by which he was governed; it was permanently deposited there, as the most valuable of his treasures.
That I might not sin against thee – That it might protect me from sinning against thee. That I might be continually guided by its precepts; that I might be admonished of duty; that I might be deterred from going astray.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 119:11
Thy Word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee.
Gods Word in the heart
Such was Davids wise precaution against temptation, but we have a far higher example of the use of such precaution in the history of the temptation of our Lord. The holy Redeemer made his appeal to the Word of God, and in so doing He teaches us where to find succour and strength against temptation. The text shows us–
I. A view of the internal principle which actuates a good man. It is a heart inspired with love to God.
II. One of the efforts of that principle–he hides Gods Word in his heart. Not merely in his memory, not in the intellectual powers of the mind, but in the city and citadel, where the affections dwell, where reason governs, the home of motive, of principle, and feeling. The memory should be the storehouse of the Divine truth; it is often the very quiver of God, from which He draws His arrows of conviction, and the storehouse where He draws comfort and peace for His people. I believe the human mind never forgets; what it seizes, it never lets go. The mind acquires, retains, hides up, and in a moment brings back past thoughts. This is a power of vast importance in a moral point of view. How well, then, that our minds should be stored with Divine truth. The Holy Ghost brings thence those things concerning God and so teaches us. Children should learn the very words of Scripture, even when they cannot fully understand them. But they will have their use some future day. But not in the memory alone did David hide Gods Word, but in his heart. Love needed to understand Gods Word. Suitable dispositions are like proper lights to a painting–it cannot else be rightly seen. Now with the Word of God hid in our hearts, lovingly treasured up, we shall find a preservative against temptation, as did our Lord. What raises such a barrier against sin of all kinds as the Word of God lovingly remembered? You know how a pebble from a poor shepherd boy slew, in days of old, a most powerful and defiant giant; but then the pebble was taken from the brook in the spirit of confidence in God. And so we must take forth the teachings of Gods Word in a spirit of confidence that God will give us His promised strength. Then hide up Gods Word in your heart, and pray the Holy Spirit to visit you as the remembrancer in your moments of need. (C. J. Phipps Eyre, M. A.)
The Word of God in the heart
I. The great desire and aim of a good man. Not to sin against God.
1. His views of God give this desire and aim.
2. His love of God.
3. His views of sin in its nature and its consequences.
II. The means which, a good man adopts to realize this desire. The Word must be in the heart as power and life; controlling the thoughts–the motives–the principles. In the heart. Hid in the heart. Laid up there; made secure there against the robbery of sin, Satan, scepticism, etc. The Word of God, in its doctrines, precepts, promises, threatenings, examples, is a power in man which no other word can be. It teaches; it restrains; it warns; it guides; it saves. Things which we value; which are essential for certain ends, we preserve in the most secure places; as deeds, jewels, wills, etc. So a good man hides the Word of God in his heart; so that in times of danger it is safe. A Roman priest once took a Bible from a boy, and burnt it. The boy said to him, You cannot burn the Word which I have in my heart. It was the Word of God hid in the heart that made the apostles so courageous in work and sufferings; that made martyrs so true and faithful; that now makes Christians so unyielding to the worlds jeers, persecution, and atheism. Heaven and earth shall pass away; but Gods Word, hid in the heart, endureth for ever. (Anon.)
Treasure safely kept
I. thy Implying Jehovahs presence. Omniscience. This eye ever looks you through! In His dread presence you this moment are.
II. Thy word. Better than thousands of, etc. Sweeter than honey, etc. A light, guide, chart. The power of God unto salvation. Christ is its fulness and glory.
III. Thy Word have. Not will, intend, purpose. An act already done. Let us change our intentions into deeds, our purposes into facts.
IV. Thy Word have I. The individual stands out. We are individuals, not congregations, before God.
V. Thy Word have I hid. Not as the miser. As leaven. As seed. For personal use. For wide and extended use.
VI. Thy Word have I hid in. If all of Gods Word that is not in us was taken from us, how much should we have left? The Pharisees wore it outside. It must be in us a living power. In us a spring of action.
VII. Thy Word have I hid in my. Parents, you wish to hide it in your children. How about yourselves? Sunday-school teachers, etc.? All of you wish it to be hid in those who sit next to you, etc.
VIII. Thy Word have I hid in my heart Must be in the heart. With the heart we feel, believe, love. (R. Berry.)
A sure preventive of sin
I. The Word of God is in its very nature expulsive of sin and cleansing therefrom (Joh 15:3.)
II. Hid like a sword in its sheath to be drawn out at a moments notice. Christs answer to Satan: It is written. Hid like a guard in a house, a sentinel in a fort, to watch diligently against the approach of temptation. (Homiletic Monthly.)
Three great things in human life
I. A great revelation. Thy Word. A word is a revelation of intelligent moral mind. The value of a word depends up the intellectual and moral worth of the mind it expresses. The words of thoughtless men are wind and nothing more. The words of corrupt men are the channels of impurity. The words of the holy and the strong are amongst the most elevating forces in society. But what is a human word compared with the Word of God? The revelation of a mind infinitely wise, immaculately holy, boundlessly loving and almighty in strength. This Word we have here, and it is given us in order to work our spiritual renovation, and to restore us to the moral image of its Author.
II. A great act. Thy Word have I hid in mine heart.
1. There are many wrong uses of this Word.
(1) The infidel uses it in order to throw doubt upon its contents, invalidate its authority and caricature its discoveries.
(2) The sectarian uses it in order to sustain his own crotchets and justify his own exclusiveness.
(3) The worldly-minded uses it in order by writing or preaching, or profession, to promote his secular gains and advance his social influence.
2. What is the right use of it.? To hide it in the heart. Hide it as golden grain in the soil that it may germinate and grow, and produce abundant fruit. It is a wonderful thought that God has given man the capacity to take into his nature the Word, and profoundly solemn is the thought that it is only as he takes in this Word into the depths of his nature and hides it there that he can reach a happy destiny.
III. A great purpose. That I might not sin against Thee.
1. Sin is a terrible evil. It is worse than hell, for it is the cause and spirit of it.
2. There is a propensity in man to fall into this evil. This, alas, is true to all history universal. Experience and our own consciousness.
3. Gods Word in the heart is the efficient counteractive. (Homilist.)
The best thing in the best place
I. The word of God is the rest thing.
1. Because it is Divine.
2. It is good throughout.
3. It is the root of all good.
4. It is most prized at last.
II. Put it in the best place. It is of no good to any of us until it is there,–that is, in the heart.
III. Here is the best purpose, That I might not sin against Thee. Does some one fancy that there could be a higher reason, a nobler purpose, than that? If you will think it over you will come to the conclusion that the Christian has no nobler ambition than to live without sin. That I might not sin against Thee!–there is no higher ambition than to live on earth the life of heaven. But, how does hiding Gods Word in the heart promote holiness, how does it prevent sin?
1. It discovers sin. If you know Gods Word well, you are on the high road to the easy discovery of Gods will, for it is the revelation of the Divine will. By these testimonies you will know what God approves and delights in. It will be equally plain what He abhors and detests. These are the balances of the sanctuary.
2. It announces sin. It tells you where the evil is, and when you may expect it. It is a sort of tocsin that warns you of impending danger; an alarum timed to startle you just when the danger is close, and there is yet time to escape.
3. It points out the way of escape, it reveals the secret door in the wall, when your only safety is in flight. It is the chart on which is marked every shoal, and every quicksand, and every rock; and the safe channels, too.
4. It arms us against the danger. If kept in the heart, it keeps the heart.
5. It strengthens and nerves the spirit.
6. It reveals to us the path of duty. (T. Spurgeon.)
Gods Word hidden in the heart
I. What the psalmist hid. Thy Word–the Word of God, the message He has sent to us for our instruction and guidance, for our encouragement and consolation and delight. It is a Word which has reached us through the ministry of men who were themselves enlightened and inspired by God, that they might teach us all that we most need to know. Do not, on any account, neglect the Bible. It contains all that is essential, and the man who knows it has the essence of all wisdom. It is, indeed, light to guide, a beacon to warn, a mine of gold, a well of ever-living water, and the bread of eternal life. For all our deepest needs there is, as Sir Walter Scott said on his death-bed, but One book, and that book is the Word of God.
II. Where he hid its–in my heart–in the very lowest depths, the most secure and secret places of his nature. No external possession or hiding of the Bible is of the slightest use here. It is not having, but using that tells. The Bible is ours only so far as we know and understand and love it. Pray that the Holy Spirit may open your heart that you may attend to the things written and spoken!
III. Why he hid it–that I might not sin against Thee. That was, indeed, a good purpose. To sin is to do wrong, to go astray, to miss the true mark of our life–the mark at which we ought to aim. It weakens and degrades us, mars our nature, and destroys our happiness both for this world arid the next. We are all in danger of falling into it. If left to ourselves, to our own ideas and inclinations and desires, we shall fall into it. We need to be ever on our guard, and to pray, Hold Thou me up. If we remember and rightly love the Bible we shall not sin against God. It will make us wise unto salvation. (James Stuart.)
The bane and antidote of souls
I. The bane of souls. What is the bane? Sin. A little word, but a terrible thing. The Bible represents it as a slavery, a diseases a pollution, a poison, etc. It is loathsome to the Creator, it is the curse of the creature. This is the bane.
II. The antidote of souls. Gods Word contains the power, and the only power, to destroy sin. (Homilist.)
Hiding and not hiding
(with Psa 40:10):–Those two texts seem to contradict, but really complete, each other. There is a hiding, without which a Christian life is scarcely possible, and cannot be vigorous. There is a not hiding, which is equally indispensable. The latter is the consequence of the former. Unless a man can say, Thy Word have I hid in my heart, depend upon it, he will never say, I have not hid Thy righteousness from the great congregation; and, conversely, unless a man can declare that he has hid his deepest convictions, his deepest convictions will be very shallow.
1. The deep, inward secret of all noble, and especially of all deep, real, Christian life. Thy Word have I hid in my heart. This means, first, familiarity with your Bible. Do not let any notion that God speaks at sundry times and in divers manners, not only in Scripture, but otherwise, in providences, and in the world, and in our own hearts, cause us to neglect, as this generation does neglect, the systematic, diligent, daily perusal of Holy Scripture. You cannot hide the Word of God in your heart if you neglect, as so many of us do, the most articulate utterance of that Word in that Book, which, whatever may be the theories about the way it came into being, is the Word of the living God. Then there is another way by which we hide the Word in our hearts. It is, to cultivate the habit of referring everything to Gods will. There must also be loving submission to what we know to be Gods will. Put the will of God into your heart, and it will be like a bit of camphor wrapped up in some fur garment; it will keep all the moths off.
II. A not hiding, which increases possession. I have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart, etc. That life of which I have been speaking, the deep, secret life of communion with the will of God, will he hidden, but it will not be hidden. No man can smother up and bury his deepest convictions. If there be a bulb in the ground, and there be life in the bulb, the flower will force its way up through the earth when the spring days come. And every one of us, although unconsciously, declares the secret of our hidden lives by our conduct in the world. But there is more than that. No Christian man that has in his heart the Word and will of God but will know the impulse to impart it, and that in proportion as his own possession of Jesus Christ, who, as the embodiment of the will, is the Word of God–is deep and vital. (A. Maclaren, D. D.)
Word in the heart a defence
The early settlers in America had to keep their guns within reach while about their work on the farm, for the Indians might come upon them unawares. Our foe, the devil, is quite as likely to take us when off guard. We need to have our weapon at all times within reach. It is not probable that our Saviour had the Scriptures in His hands when Satan came to Him in the wilderness, but He had laid up the truth in His heart so that no surprise was possible.
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 11. Thy word have I hid in my heart]
7. He must treasure up those portions of God’s word in his mind and heart which speak against uncleanness of every kind; and that recommend purity, chastity, and holiness. The word of Christ should dwell richly in him. If God’s word be only in his Bible, and not also in his heart, he may soon and easily be surprised into his besetting sin.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I have not contented myself with bare hearing or reading thy word, but have received it in the love of it, have diligently pondered it, and laid it up in my mind and memory like a choice treasure, to be ready upon all occasions, to counsel, or comfort, or quicken, or caution me, as need requires; that by a diligent and affectionate consideration of thy precepts, and promises, and threatenings, I might be kept from sinful courses, against which these are the best antidote.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Thy word have I hid in mine heart,…. Not only heard and read it, but received it into his affections; mixed it with faith, laid it up in his mind and memory for future use; preserved it in his heart as a choice treasure, where it might dwell richly, and be of service to him on many occasions; and particularly be of the following use:
that I might not sin against thee; the word of God is a most powerful antidote against sin, when it has a place in the heart; not only the precepts of it forbid sin, but the promises of it influence and engage to purity of heart and life, and to the perfecting of holiness in the fear of the Lord; and all the doctrines of grace in it effectually teach the saints to deny all sin and worldly lusts, and to live a holy life and conversation; see 2Co 7:1.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Here is, 1. The close application which David made of the word of God to himself: He hid it in his heart, laid it up there, that it might be ready to him whenever he had occasion to use it; he laid it up as that which he valued highly, and had a warm regard for, and which he was afraid of losing and being robbed of. God’s word is a treasure worth laying up, and there is no laying it up safely but in our hearts; if we have it only in our houses and hands, enemies may take it from us; if only in our heads, our memories may fail us: but if our hearts be delivered into the mould of it, and the impressions of it remain on our souls, it is safe. 2. The good uses he designed to make of it: That I might not sin against thee. Good men are afraid of sin, and are in care to prevent it; and the most effectual way to prevent is to hide God’s word in our hearts, that we may answer every temptation, as our Master did, with, It is written, may oppose God’s precepts to the dominion of sin, his promises to its allurements, and his threatenings to its menaces.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
11. I have hid thy word in my heart. This psalm not being composed for the personal and peculiar use of the author only, we may therefore understand, that as frequently as David sets before us his own example, under this model he points out the course we ought to pursue. Here we are informed that we are well fortified against the stratagems of Satan when God’s law is deeply seated in our hearts. For unless it have a fast and firm hold there, we will readily fall into sin. Among scholars, those whose knowledge is confined to books, if they have not the book always before them, readily discover their ignorance; in like manner, if we do not imbibe the doctrine of God, and are well acquainted with it, Satan will easily surprise and entangle us in his meshes. Our true safeguard, then, lies not in a slender knowledge of his law, or in a careless perusal of it, but in hiding it deeply in our hearts. Here we are reminded, that however men may be convinced of their own wisdom, they are yet destitute of all right judgment, except as far as they have God as their teacher.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(11) Thy word.A different term to that in Psa. 119:9. The two are interchanged throughout the psalm.
Hid . . .As the Oriental hid treasures. (Comp Mat. 13:44.)
In mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.The best comment on this is contained in our Lords words (Mat. 15:19).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Ver. 11. Thy word have I hid in my heart ] Ut peculium in apotheca; as treasure; or as an amulet in a case or chest; as the pot of manna in the ark.
That I might not sin against thee
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Psalms
LIFE HID AND NOT HID
Psa 119:11
Then there are two kinds of hiding-one right and one wrong: one essential to the life of the Christian, one inconsistent with it. He is a shallow Christian who has no secret depths in his religion. He is a cowardly or a lazy one, at all events an unworthy one, who does not exhibit, to the utmost of his power, his religion. It is bad to have all the goods in the shop window; it is just as bad to have them all in the cellar. There are two aspects of the Christian life-one between God and myself, with which no stranger intermeddles; one patent to all the world. My two texts touch these two.
I. ‘I have hid Thy word within my heart.’ There we have the word hidden, or the secret religion of the heart.
Now, I venture to take that expression, ‘Thy word,’ in a somewhat wider sense than the Psalmist employed it. There are three ideas conveyed by that expression in Scripture; and two of them are distinctly found in this psalm.
First, there is the plain, obvious one, which means by ‘the word,’ written revelation. The Bible of the Psalmist was a very small volume compared with ours. The Pentateuch, and perhaps some of the historical books, possibly also one or two of the prophets-and these were about all. Yet this fragmentary word he ‘hid in his heart.’ Now, dear brethren! I wish to say a very practical thing or two, and I begin with this. If you want to be strong Christian people, hide the Bible in your heart. When I was a boy the practice of good Christian folk was to read a daily chapter. I wonder if that is kept up. I gravely suspect it is not. There are, no doubt, a great many causes contributing to the comparative decay amongst professing Christians, of Bible reading and Bible study. There is modern ‘higher criticism,’ which has a great deal to say about how and when the books were made, especially the books that composed this Psalmist’s Bible. But I want to insist that no theories, were they ever so well established-as I take leave to say they are not-no theories about these secondary questions touch the value of Scripture as a factor in the development of the Christian life. Whatever a man may think about these, he will be none the less alive, if he is wise, to the importance of the daily devotional study of Scripture.
Then there is another set of reasons for the neglect of Scripture, in the multiplication of other forms of literature. People have so many other books to read now, that they have not much time for reading their Bibles, or if they have, they think they have not. No literature will ever take the place of the old Book. Why, even looked at as a mere literary product there is nothing in the world like it! And no religious literature, sermons, treatises, still less magazines and periodicals, will do for Christian men what the Bible will do for them. You make a tremendous mistake, for your own souls’ sake, if your religious reading consists in what people have said and thought about Scripture, more than in the Scripture itself. Why should you dip your pitchers into the reservoir, when you can take them up to where the spring comes gushing out of the hillside, pure and limpid and living?
Then there is the drive of our modern life which crowds out the word. Get up a quarter of an hour earlier and you will have time to read your Bible. It will be well worth the sacrifice, if it is a sacrifice. I do not mean by reading the Bible what, I am afraid, is far too common, reading a scrap of Scripture as if it were a kind of charm. But I would most earnestly press upon you that muscle and fibre will distinctly atrophy and become enfeebled, if Christian people neglect the first plain way of hiding the word in their heart, which is to make the utterances of Scripture as if incorporated with their very being, and part of their very selves.
But there is another use of the expression, ‘Thy word,’ which is not without example in this great psalm of praise of the word. In one place in it we read, ‘For ever, O Lord! Thy word is settled in heaven’; that is not the Bible. ‘Thy faithfulness is unto all generations. They continue this day according to Thy ordinances’; these are not the Bible-’for all are Thy servants.’ ‘Unless Thy law had been my delight, I should have perished in my afflictions’; I think that is not the Bible either, but it is the utterance of God’s will, as expressed in the Psalmist’s affliction. God’s word comes to us in His providences and in many other ways. It is the declaration of His character and purposes, however they are declared, and the expression of His will and command, however expressed. In that wider sense of the phrase, I would say, ‘Hide that manifested will of God in your hearts.’ Let us cultivate the habit of bringing all ‘the issues of life’-the streams that bubble up from that fountain in the centre of our being-into close relation to what we know to be God’s will concerning us. Let the thought of the will of God sit sovereign arbiter, enthroned in the very centre of our personality, ruling our will, bending it and making it yielding and conformed to His, governing our affections, regulating our passions, restraining our desires, stimulating our slothfulness, quickening our aspirations, lifting heavenwards our hopes, and bringing the whole of the activities that well up from our hearts into touch with the will of God. Cast the healing branch into the very eye of the fountain, and then all the streams will partake of the cleansing. Let that known will of God be as the leaven hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened. A fanciful interpretation of that emblem makes the three measures to mean the triple constituents of humanity, body, soul, and spirit. We may smile at the fantastic exposition, but let us take heed to obey the exhortation. When God’s will is deeply planted within, it will work quickening change on the heavy dough of our sluggish natures. It is when we bring the springs of our actions-namely, our motives, which are our true selves-into touch with His uttered will, that our deeds become conformed to it. Look after the motives, and the deeds will look after themselves. ‘I have hid Thy word within my heart.’
And now I venture upon a further application of this phrase, of which the Psalmist had no notion, but which, in God’s great mercy, in the progress of revelation, we can make. There is a better word of God than the Bible; there is a better word of God than any will uttered in His providences and the like. There is the Incarnate Word of God, who ‘was from the beginning with God, and was God,’ and is manifested in these last times unto us. I am keeping well within the analogy of Scripture teaching when I see the perfecting of revelation by the spoken Word as reached in the revelation by the personal word; and when, in addition to the exhortation, to hide the Scripture in your hearts, and to hide the uttered will of God, however uttered, in your hearts, I add, let us hide Christ in our hearts. For He will ‘dwell in our hearts by faith,’ and if He is shrined within the curtains of the secret place within us, which is ‘the secret place of the Most High,’ then, in the courts of the sanctuary, there will be a pure sacrifice and a priest clad ‘in the beauties of holiness.’
II. The word not hidden, or the religion of the outward life.
The word, if hid in the heart, will certainly be manifest in the life. For not only is it impossible for a man who deeply and continually realises God’s will, and lives in touch with Jesus Christ, to prevent these experiences from visibly affecting His life and conduct, but also in the measure in which we have that conscious inward possession of the divine word and the divine Christ we shall be impelled to manifest them to our fellows by every means in our power. What, then, is the inference to be drawn from the fact that there are thousands of professing Christian people in Manchester, who never felt the slightest touch of a necessity to make known the Master whom they say they serve? They must be very shallow Christians, having no depth of experience, or that experience would insist on coming out. True Christian emotion is like a fire smouldering within some substance, that never rests till it burns its way to the outside. As one of the prophets puts it, ‘I said I will speak no more in Thy name’; he goes on to tell how his resolve of silence gave way under the pressure of the unuttered speech-’Thy word shut up in my bones was like a fire, and I was weary of forbearing and I could not stay.’ So it will always be. Every genuine conviction demands utterance. A full heart needs the relief of speech. If you feel no need to show your allegiance and love to Christ by speech as well as by life, I shrewdly suspect you have little love or allegiance to hide.
Further, the more we show it, the more need there is for us to cultivate the hidden element in our religion. If I were talking to ministers I should have a great deal to say about that. There are preachers who preach away their own religion. The two attitudes of mind in imparting and in receiving are wholly different; and if one is allowed to encroach upon the other, nothing but harm can come. ‘As thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone,’-that is the short account of the decay of personal religion in many a life outwardly diligent in Christian work. If there is a proportionate cultivation of the hidden self, then the act of manifesting will tend to strengthen it. It is meant that our Christian convictions and affections should grow in strength and in transforming power upon ourselves, by reason of utterance; just as when you let air in, the fire burns brighter. But it is quite possible that we may dissipate and scatter our feeble religion by talking about it; and some of us may be in danger of that. The loftier you mean to build your tower, the deeper must be the foundation that you dig. The more any of us are trying to do for Jesus Christ, the more need there is that we increase our secret communion with Jesus Christ.
We may wrongly hide our religion so that it evaporates. Too many professing Christians put away their religion as careless housewives might do some precious perfume, and when they go to take it out, they find nothing but a rotten cork, a faint odour, and an empty flask. Take care of burying your religion so deep, as dogs do bones, that you cannot find it again, or if you do discover, when you open the coffin, that it holds only a handful of dry dust. The heart has two actions. In one it opens its portals and expands to receive the inflowing blood which is the life. In the other it contracts to drive the life through the veins. For health there must be both motions; the receptiveness, in the secret ‘hiding of the word in the heart’; the expulsive energy in the ‘not hiding Thy righteousness in my heart.’
Fuente: Expositions Of Holy Scripture by Alexander MacLaren
word = the mode, or purport of what is said. The fifth in order of the ten words of this Psalm. See App-73. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read “words” (plural)
hid = treasured up.
sin. Hebrew. chata’. App-44.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Thy word: Psa 119:97, Psa 1:2, Psa 37:31, Psa 40:8, Job 22:22, Pro 2:1, Pro 2:10, Pro 2:11, Isa 51:7, Jer 15:16, Luk 2:19, Luk 2:51, Col 3:16
that I: Psa 19:13
Reciprocal: Deu 4:9 – lest they Deu 6:6 – shall be Deu 11:18 – ye lay up Jos 1:8 – thou shalt Jos 24:22 – ye have 1Sa 21:12 – laid up 1Ch 28:8 – keep Neh 13:3 – when they Job 23:12 – I have esteemed Psa 18:21 – For I Psa 19:11 – Moreover Psa 119:16 – not forget Psa 119:98 – they are ever Psa 119:125 – that I Pro 3:1 – let Pro 3:3 – bind Pro 4:4 – Let Pro 6:22 – General Eze 3:3 – Then Eze 3:10 – receive Luk 1:66 – laid Luk 8:15 – keep Joh 5:38 – ye have Joh 5:39 – Search Joh 15:7 – my Joh 17:6 – they Joh 17:17 – Sanctify 1Co 15:34 – sin not 2Ti 3:16 – for instruction 1Jo 2:14 – the word 1Jo 2:24 – abide 3Jo 1:3 – the truth
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
119:11 Thy word have I {b} hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
(b) If God’s word is carved in our hearts, we will be more able to resist the assaults of Satan: and therefore the prophet desires God to instruct him daily more and more in it.