Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
16. Cp. Psa 119:47 ; Psa 119:70.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
I will delight myself in thy statutes – I will find my happiness in thy laws. See Psa 1:2, note; Psa 112:1, note.
I will not forget thy word – I will not allow the world to crowd it out of my mind.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 16. I will delight myself] The word is very emphatical: eshtaasha, I will skip about and jump for joy.
14. He must exult in God’s word as his treasure, live in the spirit of obedience as his work, and ever glory in God, who has called him to such a state of salvation.
15. He must never forget what God has done for him, done in him, and promised farther to do; and he must not forget the promises he had made, and the vows of the Lord that are upon him. Any young man who attends to these fifteen particulars will get his impure way cleansed; victory over his sin; and, if he abide faithful to the Lord that bought him, an eternal heaven at last among them that are sanctified.
ANALYSIS OF LETTER BETH. – Second Division
In the first part the psalmist, having commended God’s law, from its Author – God, and its end – happiness, shows us in the second part the efficacy and utility of it to a holy life, without which there can be no happiness. And in order to show this effect, he chooses the most unlikely subject.
I. A young man, in whom the law of the members is most strong; he wants experience; he is headstrong, and generally under the government, not of reason nor religion, but of his own passions.
II. The psalmist shows that, to cleanse the way of such, he must “take heed to them,” watch over them, and “remember his Creator in the days of his youth.”
As a man must become holy in order to be happy, he shows how this holiness is to be attained, and adduces his own experience.
1. Seek God with thy “whole heart.” Be truly sensible of your wants.
2. Keep and remember what God says: “Thy words have I hidden,” &c.
3. Reduce all this to practice: “That I might not sin against thee.”
4. Bless God for what he has given: “Blessed art thou,” &c.
5. Ask more: “Teach me thy statutes.”
6. Be ready to communicate his knowledge to others: “With my lips have I declared.”
7. Let it have a due effect on thy own heart: “I have rejoiced,” &c.
8. Meditate frequently upon them: “I will meditate,” &c.
9. Deeply reflect on them: “I will have respect,” &c. As food undigested will not nourish the body, so the word of God not considered with deep meditation and reflection will not feed the soul.
10. Having pursued the above course, he should continue in it, and then his happiness would be secured: “I will not forget thy word. I will (in consequence) delight myself in thy statutes.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I will delight myself in thy statutes,…. In looking over them; in meditating on them; in obeying them, and walking according to them; as every good man does delight in the law of the Lord, after the inward man, Ro 7:22; see Ps 119:24;
I will not forget thy word: he took all proper methods to fix it in his memory; he laid it up in his mind; he meditated upon it in his heart, and he talked of it with his lips, Ps 119:11.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Ver. 16. I will delight myself ] Deliciabor; the Arabic hath it, lectitabo leges tuas, I will oft read over thy laws.
I will not forget
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
word. Same word as in Psa 119:9 (not Psa 119:11): but some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read “words” (plural)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
delight: Psa 119:14, Psa 119:24, Psa 119:35, Psa 119:47, Psa 119:70, Psa 119:77, Psa 119:92, Psa 40:8, Rom 7:22, Heb 10:16, Heb 10:17
not forget: Psa 119:11, Psa 119:83, Psa 119:93, Psa 119:109, Psa 119:141, Psa 119:176, Pro 3:1, Jam 1:23, Jam 1:24
Reciprocal: Neh 8:12 – because Psa 19:8 – statutes Psa 104:34 – meditation Psa 112:1 – delighteth Psa 119:143 – yet thy Psa 119:153 – for I Psa 119:174 – and thy law Pro 21:15 – joy Jer 6:10 – delight Heb 12:5 – ye have forgotten