Psalms 119:136

"Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes."

Key Reflection

In Psalms 119:136, the psalmist prays for divine favor and instruction, saying, "Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes." The phrase "make your face shine" (a Hebrew idiom) is a plea for God’s presence and blessing to be evident in the life of the psalmist. This request for divine light and guidance sets the stage for the subsequent prayer for teaching, indicating that true understanding of God's laws comes only through His illumination and instruction.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes -My heart is sad, and my eyes pour forth floods of tears. It is not a gentle weeping, but my eyes are like a fountain which pours out full-flowing streams. SeeJeremiah 9:1. “Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears,” etc. CompareJeremiah 14:17;Lamentations 1:16;Lamentations 2:18. Because they keep not thy law -On account of the sins, the follies, the stupidity, and the transgressions of people. So the Saviour wept over JerusalemLuke 19:41; and so the apostle said that he had “great heaviness and continual sorrow” in his heart, on account of his “brethren,” his “kinsmen according to the flesh.”Romans 9:2-3. Such a feeling is right.

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