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How love I your law! It is my meditation all day.
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An Astonishing Love
The psalmist's cry, "Oh how love I thy law!" is not a casual statement but an expression of overwhelming, passionate love. Commentators like Albert Barnes note the wonder of it—that a human heart could be so captivated by God's Word. This intense affection is presented as a work of God's grace, so profound it's almost beyond words.
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Psalms
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18th Century
Presbyterian
O how love I thy law! - This commences a new division of the Psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Mem (מ m — “m”…
19th Century
Baptist
O how love I thy law!
The psalmist breaks out into a transport of delight. He does not say how much he loved God's law, for the simp…
16th Century
Protestant
O how have I loved thy law! Not content with a simple affirmation, the prophet exclaims, in the form of a question, that he was inflamed w…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Psalms 119:97
What we love, we love to think of. All true wisdom is from God. A good man carries his Bible with him, if not in his hands, yet in his head and in …
