Psalms 119:152

Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
testimonies	מֵעֵדֹתֶ֑יךָ me.'e.do.Tei.kha	H5713	testimony · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
known	יָ֭דַעְתִּי Ya.da'.ti	H3045	to know (properly · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular
old	קֶ֣דֶם Ke.dem	H6924	the front · noun, common masculine singular absolute
founded	יְסַדְתָּֽם ye.sad.Tam	H3245	to set (literally or figuratively) · verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
ever	לְעוֹלָ֣ם le.'o.Lam	H5769	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Psalms 111:7-8 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men s…
Psalms 119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
Psalms 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Psalms 89:34-37 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:152

This confirms what he had said in the close of the foregoing verses, All thy commandments are truth; he means the covenant, the word which God has commanded to a thousand generations. This is firm, as true as truth itself. For, 1. God has founded it so; he has framed it for a perpetuity. Such is the constitution of it, and so well ordered is it in all things, that it cannot but be sure. The promises are founded for ever, so that when heaven and earth shall have passed away every iota and tittle of the promise shall stand firm, Co2 1:20. 2. David had found it so, both by a work of God's grace upon his heart (begetting in him a full persuasion of the truth of God's word and enabling him to rel…

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John Gill on Psalms 119:152

Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old,.... Or, "from thy testimonies, I have known of old" (d): by carefully reading the Scriptures which testify of God, his mind an will, and frequently meditating on them, he had learned a long time ago, even from his youth, what follows, that thou hast founded them for ever; that the things contained in them are sure and certain, established and eternal truths; the moral law and the precepts of it are eternal, and of perpetual obligation; not one jot or tittle of them shall ever fail; the Gospel, and the truths of it, are everlasting, and shall ever remain; in spite of all the opposition, craft and cunning, fury and force of men, to undermine an…

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John Calvin on Psalms 119:145-152

Psalm 119:145-152 145. q I have cried with my whole heart; answer me, O Jehovah! and I will keep thy statutes. 146. q I have called upon thee; save me, and I will keep thy testimonies. 147. q I have prevented the twilight, [19] and have cried: I have looked up to thy word. 148. q My eyes have prevented the night-watches, to meditate upon thy word. 149. q Hear my yoke, O Jehovah! According to thy mercy, quicken me according to thy judgment. 150. q The pursuers of malice have drawn near; they have departed from thy law. 151. q Thou, O Jehovah! art near; and all thy commandments are truth. 152. q I have known from thy testimonies from the beginning that thou hast established them for ever. 14…

The Church Fathers

"From the beginning I have known," he saith, "as concerning Thy testimonies, that Thou hast grounded them for ever" (ver. 152). ...What are these testimonies, save those wherein God hath declared that He will give an everlasting kingdom unto His sons? And since He hath declared that He will give this in His only-begotten Son, he said that the testimonies themselves were grounded for ever. For that which God hath promised through them, was everlasting. And for this reason the words, "Thou hast grounded them," are rightly thus understood, because they are shown to be true in Christ. Whence then did the Psalmist know this in the beginning, save because the Church speaketh, which was not wanting to the earth from the commencement of the human race, the first-fruits whereof was the holy Abel, himself sacrificed in testimony of the future blood of the Mediator that should be shed by a wicked brother? For this also was at the beginning, "They two shall be one flesh:" which great mystery the Apostle Paul expounding, saith, "I speak concerning Christ and the Church."
— 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,…

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Psalms 119:152

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:152

John Gill on Psalms 119:152

John Calvin on Psalms 119:145-152

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 119:152

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:152

John Gill on Psalms 119:152

John Calvin on Psalms 119:145-152

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:145-152

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 119:150-151