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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 29 October 2012
Psalms 119:73-80
(73) JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
(74) They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
(75) I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
(76) Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
(77) Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
(78) Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
(79) Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
(80) Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
119:73–80. We have now come to the tenth portion; its subject would seem to be personal experience and its attractive influence upon others. The prophet is in deep sorrow, but looks to be delivered and made a blessing. Endeavoring to teach, the psalmist first seeks to be taught (verse 73), persuades himself that he will be well received (verse 74), and rehearses the testimony which he intends to bear (verse 75). He prays for more experience (verses 76–77), for the baffling of the proud (verse 78), for the gathering together of the godly to him (verse 79), and for himself again that he may be fully equiped for his witness-bearing and may be sustained in it (verse 80). This is the anxious yet hopeful cry of one who is heavily afflicted by cruel adversaries, and therefore makes his appeal to God as his only friend.
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