Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:26-27
We have here, 1. The great intimacy and freedom that had been between David and his God. David had opened his case, opened his very heart to God: ?I have declared my ways, and acknowledged thee in them all, have taken thee along with me in all my designs and enterprises.? Thus Jephthah uttered all his words, and Hezekiah spread his letters, before the Lord. ?I have declared my ways, my wants, and burdens, and troubles, that I meet with in my way, or my sins, my by-ways (I have made an... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:25
Here is, I. David's complaint. We should have thought his soul soaring to heaven; but he says himself, My soul not only rolls in the dust, but cleaves to the dust, which is a complaint either, 1. Of his corruptions, his inclination to the world and the body (both which are dust), and that which follows upon it, a deadness to holy duties. When he would do good evil was present with him. God intimated that Adam was not only mortal, but sinful, when he said, Dust thou art, Gen. 3:19. David's... read more