Psa 116:3, 119:17, 25, 40, 50 | JFB | STEP | 3, 4. For similar figures for distress see . gat hold upon me —Another sense ("found") of the same word follows, as we speak of disease finding us, and of our finding or catching disease.

Psalms 116:3

3, 4. For similar figures for distress see Ps 18:4, 5.

gat hold upon me—Another sense ("found") of the same word follows, as we speak of disease finding us, and of our finding or catching disease.

Psalms 119:17

17-20. Life is desirable in order to serve God; that we may do so aright, we should seek to have our eyes opened to behold His truth, and earnestly desire fully to understand it.

Psalms 119:25

25-27. Submitting ourselves in depression to God, He will revive us by His promises, and lead us to declare His mercy to others.

Psalms 119:40

39, 40. Our hope of freedom from the reproach of inconsistency is in God's power, quickening us to live according to His Word, which He leads us to love.

for thy judgments are good—The time must therefore be at hand when Thy justice will turn the "reproach" from Thy Church upon the world (Isa 25:8; 66:5; Zep 2:8-10).

VAU. (Ps 119:41-48).

Psalms 119:50

50. for—rather, "This is my comfort . . . that," &c. [MAURER].

hath quickened—What the Word has already done is to faith a pledge of what it shall yet do.