Meditations and Prayers Relating to the Law of God 1

119 Blessed are they whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the Lord.

Psa 119:1
Blessed—Here the Lord, who in the last day will pronounce some to be blessed and some to be cursed, doth now tell us who they are. What can comfort them to whom the Lord shall say, Depart from me, ye cursed? Where away shall they go when the Lord shall command them to depart from him? And what greater joy can come to a man, than to hear the Judge of all saying unto him, Come to me, ye blessed? Oh that we were wise in time, to think of this, that so we might endeavour to become such men as God in his word bath blessed!—William Cowper, 1566-1619.

Blessed—The Psalmist beginneth with a description of the way to true blessedness, as Christ began his Sermon on the Mount, and as the whole Book of Psalms is elsewhere begun. Blessedness is that which we all aim at, only we are either ignorant or reckless of the way that leadeth to it, therefore the holy Psalmist would first set us right as to the true notion of a blessed man: "Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord."—Thomas Manton, 1620-1677.

Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord—(Psa 1:1-2.) This 119th Psalm is as it were an inspired sermon on this text, which contains its substance in epitome.

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary

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