Psalms 119:126

It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
time	עֵ֭ת 'et	H6256	time · noun, common both genders singular absolute
LORD	לַיהוָ֑ה la.Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · preposition + proper noun, a title
work	לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת la.'a.Sot	H6213	to do or make · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
void	הֵ֝פֵ֗רוּ he.Fe.ru	H6565	to break up (usually figuratively) · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person common plural
law	תּוֹרָתֶֽךָ to.ra.Te.kha	H8451	a precept or statute · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Jeremiah 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment pr…
Malachi 2:8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hos…
Psalms 9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
Matthew 15:6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Psalms 102:13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:126

Here is, 1. A complaint of the daring impiety of the wicked. David, having in himself a holy indignation at it, humbly represents it to God: "Lord, there are those that have made void thy law, have set thee and thy government at defiance, and have done what in them lay to cancel and vacate the obligation of thy commands." Those that sin through infirmity transgress the law, but presumptuous sinners do in effect make void the law, saying, Who is the Lord? What is the Almighty, that we should fear him? It is possible a godly man may sin against the commandment, but a wicked man would sin away the commandment, would repeal God's laws and enact his own lusts. This is the sinfulness of sin and th…

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John Gill on Psalms 119:126

It is time for thee, Lord, to work,.... To send the Messiah, to work righteousness; to fulfil the law, and vindicate the honour of it, broken by men. It was always a notion of the Jews that the time of the Messiah's coming would be when it was a time of great wickedness in the earth; and which seems to agree with the word of God, and was true in fact; see Malachi 2:17. Or to arise and have mercy on Zion, for which there is a fixed time: and its seems as if it would be when religion greatly declines, and profaneness abounds; when love is waxen cold, and there is no faith in the earth; and when the days are like those of Noah and Lot, Luke 17:26; or to take vengeance on wicked men, by sending…

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John Calvin on Psalms 119:121-128

Psalm 119:121-128 121. I have done judgment and righteousness: give me not up to my oppressors. 122. Become surety for thy servant for good, that the proud may not oppress me. 123. My eyes have failed for thy salvation, and for thy righteous word. [2] 124. Deal with thy servant according to thy goodness, and teach me thy statutes. 125. I am thy servant, give me understanding, that I may learn thy testimonies. 126. It is time for thee, O Jehovah! to be doing for they have destroyed thy law. 127. And therefore I have loved thy statutes above gold, [3] yea even above the most fine gold [4] 128. Therefore I have esteemed all thy commandments to be altogether right, and have hated every way of l…

The Church Fathers

"It is time," he says, "for the Lord to lay to His hand" [Psalm 119:126]. For this is the reading of most copies: not as some have, "O Lord." Now what is this, save the grace which was revealed in Christ at its own time? Of which season the Apostle says, "But when the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son." [Galatians 4:4] ...But wherefore is it that, seemingly anxious to show the Lord that it was time to lay to His hand, he has subjoined, "They have scattered Your law;" as if it were the season for the Lord to act, because the proud scattered His law. For what means this? In the wickedness of transgression, they have not guarded its integrity. It was needful therefore that the Law should be given to the proud and those presuming in the freedom of their own will, after a transgression of which whosoever were contrite and humbled, might run no longer by the Law, but by faith, to aiding grace. When the Law therefore was scattered, it was time that mercy should be sent through the only-begotten Son of God.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 119

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Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Zeal, Religious · EXEMPLIFIE — EXEMPLIFIE

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Psalms 119:126

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:126

John Gill on Psalms 119:126

John Calvin on Psalms 119:121-128

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 119:126

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:126

John Gill on Psalms 119:126

John Calvin on Psalms 119:121-128

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:121-128

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 119:125