Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 119:95
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will consider thy testimonies.
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me – That is, they have lain in wait; or, they have laid a plan. They are watching the opportunity to do it.
But I will consider thy testimonies – I will think of them; I will adhere to them; I will find my support in them; I will not be driven from my adhesion to them by an apprehension of what man can do to me.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
As my best comforters, and counsellors, and defenders against all the assaults and designs of mine enemies.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me,…. This is another reason why he desires the Lord would save him; because wicked men, such who feared not God, nor regarded men, sons of Belial; such as Saul’s courtiers and the conspirators with Absalom were, had laid wait and were waiting an opportunity, and were hoping and expecting to have one, that they might take away his life; destroy him out of the world, as Kimchi; or eternally, as Aben Ezra thinks; by endeavouring to draw him out of the right ways of religion and godliness, into the ways of sin and wickedness, and so ruin him for ever;
[but] I will consider thy testimonies; the word of God, which testified of his power and providence, employed in the protection of his people, and so an encouragement to put trust and confidence in him; and of his mind and will, with respect to the way in which he should walk; and so making these his counsellors, as he did, Ps 119:24; and well weighing and considering in his mind what they dictated to him, he was preserved from the attempts of his enemies to destroy him, either temporally or spiritually.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
Here, 1. David complains of the malice of his enemies: The wicked (and none but such would be enemies to so good a man) have waited for me to destroy me. They were very cruel, and aimed at no less than his destruction; they were very crafty, and sought all opportunities to do him a mischief; and they were confident (they expected, so some read it), that they should destroy him; they thought themselves sure of their prey. 2. He comforts himself in the word of God as his protection: “While they are contriving my destruction, I consider thy testimonies, which secure to me my salvation.” God’s testimonies are then likely to be our support, when we consider them, and dwell in our thoughts upon them.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
Psa 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will consider thy testimonies.
Ver. 95. The wicked have waited ] Nothing less than destruction will satisfy persecutors; but the Lord knows how to deliver his Peters out of the hands of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews, Act 12:11 2Pe 2:9 .
But I will consider thy testimonies
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
wicked: Psa 119:61, Psa 119:69, Psa 119:85-87, Psa 10:8-10, Psa 27:2, Psa 37:32, Psa 38:12, 1Sa 23:20-23, 2Sa 17:1-4, Mat 26:3-5, Act 12:11, Act 23:21, Act 25:3
but I: Psa 119:24, Psa 119:31, Psa 119:111, Psa 119:125, Psa 119:129, Psa 119:167
Reciprocal: Psa 119:110 – yet I erred Jer 18:20 – digged