Teks -- Psalms 119:128 (NET)

119:128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions.

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JFB: Psa 119:127-128 - Therefore

That is, In view of these benefits, or, Because of the glory of Thy law, so much praised in the previous parts of the Psalm.

JFB: Psa 119:127-128 - I love . . . [and] Therefore (repeated)

All its precepts, on all subjects, are estimable for their purity, and lead one imbued with their spirit to hate all evil (Psa 19:10). The Word of God admits of no eclecticism; its least title is perfect (Psa 12:6; Mat 5:17-19).

Clarke: Psa 119:128 - All thy precepts concerning all things to be right

All thy precepts concerning all things to be right - There are too many supplied words here to leave the text unsuspected. All the ancient versions, except the Chaldee, seem to have omitted the second כל col , All and read the text thus: "Therefore I have walked straight in all thy precepts."I go straight on in all thy precepts, hating every false way. I neither turn to the right hand nor to the left; the false ways are crooked; thy way is straight. I am going to heaven, and that way lies straight before me. To walk in the way of falsity I cannot, because I hate it; and I hate such ways because God hates them

Calvin: Psa 119:128 - Therefore I have esteemed all thy commandments to be altogether right

128.Therefore I have esteemed all thy commandments to be altogether right ⁷ This verse, like the preceding, is connected with the 26^th, and the connection may be brought out by observing, that the Prophet, waiting patiently for God’s judgments, and also earnestly calling for their infliction, had subscribed to the law of God in every particular, and embraced it without a single exception — and moreover, that he hated every false way. Literally, it is all the commandments of all; but the words of all are to be referred to things and not to persons, as if he had said, that he approved of all the laws which God had ordained, whatever they enjoined. ⁸ A similar form of expression occurs in Eze 44:30, “all oblations of all things” — that is to say, whatever kind of oblations men offer. The Prophet has not laid down this sentiment in such express terms without good reason; for there is nothing to which we are naturally more inclined than to despise or reject whatever in God’s law is not agreeable to us. Every man, according as he is tainted with this or that particular vice, would desire their the commandment which forbids it were razed out of the law. But we cannot lawfully make any addition to it, or take away anything from it; and since God has joined his commandments together by a sacred and inviolable bond, to separate any one of them from the rest is altogether unwarrantable. We perceive then how the Prophet, inspired with a holy jealousy for the law, contended against the wicked rebellion of those who despised it. And assuredly, when we see that the ungodly mock God with such effrontery, at one time rising up audaciously against him, trod at another perverting every part of the law, it becomes us to be the more inflamed with zeal, and to be the more courageous in maintaining the truth of God. The extreme impiety of our age especially demands of all the faithful that they should exercise themselves in this holy zeal. Profane men strive to outdo one another in scornfully aspersing the doctrine of salvation, and endeavor to bring God’s sacred Word into contempt by their derisive jeers. Others pour forth their blasphemies without intermission. We cannot, therefore, avoid being chargeable with the crime of treacherous indifference, if our hearts are not warmed with zeal, and unless we burn with a holy jealousy. The Prophet not merely says, that he approved of God’s law wholly and without exception, but he adds, that he hated every way of lying, or every false way. And, undoubtedly, no one subscribes in good earnest to the law of God, but he who rejects all the slanders by which the wicked taint or obscure the purity of sound doctrine. By way of lying, the Prophet doubtless means whatever is opposed to the purity of the law, intimating that he detested all corruption’s which are contrary to the Word of God.

Defender: Psa 119:128 - all thy precepts

Every Scripture is true and right without exception and we should hate every teaching which suggests otherwise!"

TSK: Psa 119:128 - I esteem // all things // and I

I esteem : Psa 119:6, Psa 19:7, Psa 19:8; Deu 4:8; Job 33:27; Pro 30:5; Rom 7:12, Rom 7:14, Rom 7:16, Rom 7:22

all things : Kol , ""all""seems to have been omitted by all the versions, except the Chaldee; which reads simply, ""all thy precepts;""and this renders the text more perspicuous and unembarrassed.

and I : Psa 119:104, Psa 119:118

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Poole: Psa 119:128

Ver. 128. Therefore for the reasons now mentioned, I do not make void all thy precepts, as they did, Psa 119:126 , nor yet am I partial in my approbation of them, as others are, who reject all such as are opposite to their lusts and interests; but I approve all of them without any exception, and that not only in my judgment, but in my heart and life, as appears by that hatred of sin which is opposed to it in the next clause.

Gill: Psa 119:128 - Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right // and I hate every false way

Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right,.... He had an impartial regard to all the commandments of God; and valued one as well as another, and walked according to all of them; making no difference either in his affection or practice between one and another, as being more or less necessary, just, and right: he had an equal respect to the lighter and weightier matters of the law; and, like Zacharias and Elisabeth, walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless; looking upon them all, with respect to everything commanded or forbidden by them, to be just and equitable;

and I hate every false way; every command, institution, and ordinance of men, which are opposed to the will of God; every false way of worship, all superstition and idolatry; every false doctrine whatsoever is contrary to the testimonies and word of God: and indeed where there is a true love of the word, worship, and ordinances of God, there must be an hatred of these.