--- title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5" author: "John Calvin" translator: "James Anderson" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 136 of 159 url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/136/ cite: "John Calvin, tr. James Anderson, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5, section 136. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/136/" --- # Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5 *John Calvin, tr. James Anderson* Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5. ## 136. Psalm 119 · 3 of 5 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/136/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/136/#p-N [¶0] כ [Caph.] [¶1] 81 כ Fainted for thy salvation hath my soul: For thy word I wait. [¶2] 82 כ Failed have my eyes [in looking] for thy word, While I say, “When wilt thou comfort me?” [¶3] 83 כ For I have been as a bottle in the smoke; And yet thy statutes I have not forgotten. [¶4] 84 כ How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt thou execute judgment on my persecutors? [¶5] 85 כ The proud have digged pits for me, Which is not according to thy law. [¶6] 86 כ All thy commandments are truth: Deceitfully do they persecute me; therefore help thou me. [¶7] 87 כ Almost have they consumed me upon the earth; Yet I have not forsaken thy statutes. [¶8] 88 כ According to thy goodness quicken me; And I will keep the testimony of thy mouth. [¶9] ל [Lamed.] [¶10] 89 ל For ever, O Jehovah! Thy word endureth in the heavens. [¶11] 90 ל From generation to generation is thy truth: Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. [¶12] 91 ל By thy judgments they continue to this day; For all are thy servants. [¶13] 92 ל Unless thy law had been my delight, Then should I have perished in my affliction. [¶14] 93 ל Never will I forget thy statutes, For in them thou hast quickened me. [¶15] 94 ל Thine I am; O save me! For thy statutes I have sought. [¶16] 95 ל For me wait do the ungodly to destroy me: But I consider thy testimonies. [¶17] 96 ל In all perfection I have seen an end: Broad is thy commandment exceedingly. [¶18] מ [Mem.] [¶19] 97 מ O how have I loved thy law! All the day it is my meditation. [¶20] 98 מ Than my adversaries thou hast made me wiser by thy commandments; Because for ever they are with me. [¶21] 99 מ Than all my teachers thou hast made me wiser; Because thy testimonies are my meditation. [¶22] 100 מ Than the aged I have more understanding; Because thy statutes I have observed. [¶23] 101 מ From every evil path I have restrained my feet, That I may keep thy word. [¶24] 102 מ From thy judgments I have not declined; For thou thyself hast taught me. [¶25] 103 מ How sweet to my palate have been thy words! More [sweet] than honey to my mouth! [¶26] 104 מ By thy statutes I have gotten understanding; Therefore I have hated every path of falsehood. [¶27] נ [Nun.] [¶28] 105 נ A lamp to my feet is thy word, And a light to my path. [¶29] 106 נ I have sworn and will make sure, To observe the judgments of thy righteousness. [¶30] 107 נ I am afflicted exceedingly, O Jehovah! Quicken me according to thy word. [¶31] 108 נ I Let the freewill offerings of my mouth, I pray thee, be pleasing to thee, O Jehovah! And thy judgments teach me. [¶32] 109 נ My soul is in my hand continually; And thy law I have not forgotten. [¶33] 110 נ Laid have the ungodly a snare for me: Yet from thy statutes I have not erred. [¶34] 111 נ I have as [my] inheritance thy testimonies for ever; For the joy of my heart are they. [¶35] 112 נ I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes For ever, and even to the end. [¶36] ס [Samech.] [¶37] 113 ס Crooked thoughts I have hated; But thy law I have loved. [¶38] 114 ס My hiding-place and my shield art thou: In thy word I have trusted. [¶39] 115 ס Depart from me, ye wicked men! And I will keep the commandments of my God. [¶40] 116 ס Sustain me by thy word, and I shall live: And make me not ashamed of my expectation. [¶41] 117 ס Establish me, and I shall be safe, And I will consider thy statutes continually. [¶42] 118 ס Thou hast trodden down all who go astray from thy statutes; For falsehood is their deceit. [¶43] 119 ס As dross thou hast made to cease all the ungodly of the earth; Therefore I have loved thy testimonies. [¶44] 120 ס Tremble for fear of thee did my flesh, And of thy judgments I was afraid.