Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 119:170
Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
Let my supplication come before thee – The word here rendered supplication properly means favor, mercy, pity, Jos 11:20; Ezr 9:8; then, that by which favor or mercy is sought – prayer or petition, Psa 6:9; Psa 55:1.
Deliver me according to thy word – From my enemies, my sins, my dangers. According to thy promises; according to the arrangements in thy word.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Let my supplication come before thee,…. The same with his “cry” in Ps 119:169; only expressed by another word, signifying a petition for grace and favour, in an humble and submissive manner; which it is entreated might be received and accepted, as before;
deliver me according to thy word; of promise, such as that in
Ps 50:15; meaning from all troubles and afflictions; out of the hands of all his enemies, and from the power of sin, Satan, and the world; and from all fears of wrath, ruin, and destruction. Kimchi observes, that this is not to be understood of a deliverance of the body from distress, but of the soul from the stumbling block of sin.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
170. Let my prayer come into thy presence. After having made supplication that the gift of right understanding might be imparted to him, the Psalmist now implores God for deliverance, by which he acknowledges that he was continually involved in multiplied dangers from which he found it impossible to escape, unless God stretched forth his hand from heaven to his aid. We know, indeed, that whenever any distress was pressing hard behind him, he called upon God for succor; but as he does not here specify any particular distress, I have no doubt that, in commending his life in general terms to the protection of God, he thought again and again how he was shut up on every side by innumerable deaths, from which he could not escape if God did not prove his continual deliverer. But this is an inestimable comfort to us, that God assures us that in all dangers he will be ready and prepared to help us.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Psa 119:170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
Ver. 170. Let my supplication, &c. ] The same again; neither is this battology, a but fervency in begging audience.
a A needless and tiresome repetition in speaking or writing.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Deliver = Rescue. Hebrew. nazal, to pluck out of the hands of an enemy; recover. Not the same word as in verses: Psa 119:134, Psa 119:153, Psa 119:154.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
deliver me: Psa 119:41, Psa 89:20-25, Gen 32:9-12, 2Sa 7:25
Reciprocal: Psa 119:58 – be merciful