Psa 119:65-72 | JFB | STEP | 65-67. The reliance on promises ( ) is strengthened by experience of past dealings according with promises, and a prayer for guidance, encouraged by sanctified affliction.

‏ Psalms 119:65-72

65-67. The reliance on promises (Psa 119:49) is strengthened by experience of past dealings according with promises, and a prayer for guidance, encouraged by sanctified affliction.

68. Compare as to the Lord Jesus (Ac 10:38).

69-70. The crafty malice of the wicked, in slandering him, so far from turning him away, but binds him closer to God's Word, which they are too stupid in sin to appreciate. Hengstenberg refers the "lie" to such slanders against the Jews during the captivity, as that in Ezr 4:1-6, of sedition.

71-72. So also affliction of any kind acts as a wholesome discipline in leading the pious more highly to value the truth and promises of God.

JOD. (Psa 119:73-80).