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<i>art</i> my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/119.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/psalms/119.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/psalms/119.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/psalms/119.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/119.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/psalms/119.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/psalms/119.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/119.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/psalms/119.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/psalms/119.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a 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of David">TOD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/psalms/119.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/119.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(114) <span class= "bld">My shield.</span>—For this expression see <a href="/psalms/3-3.htm" title="But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.">Psalm 3:3</a>; <a href="/psalms/7-10.htm" title="My defense is of God, which saves the upright in heart.">Psalm 7:10</a>.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/psalms/119.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>119:113-120 Here is a dread of the risings of sin, and the first beginnings of it. The more we love the law of God, the more watchful we shall be, lest vain thoughts draw us from what we love. Would we make progress in keeping God's commands, we must be separate from evil-doers. The believer could not live without the grace of God; but, supported by his hand, his spiritual life shall be maintained. Our holy security is grounded on Divine supports. All departure from God's statutes is error, and will prove fatal. Their cunning is falsehood. There is a day coming which will put the wicked into everlasting fire, the fit place for the dross. See what comes of sin Surely we who fall so low in devout affections, should fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into heavenly rest, any of us should be found to come short of it, Heb 4:1.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/119.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Thou art my hiding place - See the notes at <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/32-7.htm">Psalm 32:7</a>, where the same expression occurs.<p>And my shield - See <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/5-12.htm">Psalm 5:12</a>, note; <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-11.htm">Psalm 84:11</a>, note.<p>I hope in thy word - See <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/119-74.htm">Psalm 119:74</a>, <a href="/psalms/119-81.htm">Psalm 119:81</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/psalms/119.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>114. hiding-place—(Compare Ps 27:5).<p>shield—(Ps 3:3; 7:10).<p>hope in thy word—confidently rest on its teachings and promises.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/psalms/119.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div>Ver. 114. No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/psalms/119.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Thou art my hiding place,.... From temporal calamities. The perfections of God are chambers of retreat and safety to his people, where they may hide themselves and be safe, till such calamities are over, <a href="/isaiah/26-20.htm">Isaiah 26:20</a>. And from spiritual evils; from avenging justice, from divine wrath, from the rage of Satan, and the fury of men, <a href="/isaiah/32-2.htm">Isaiah 32:2</a>; and from eternal death, and being hurt by it; the spiritual and eternal life of saints being hid with Christ in God, <a href="/colossians/3-3.htm">Colossians 3:3</a>; see <a href="/psalms/32-7.htm">Psalm 32:7</a>; <p>and my shield; to protect from all dangers, and preserve from every enemy: such are the love and grace, the power and strength, the truth and faithfulness of God; which are the saints' shield and buckler, <a href="/psalms/5-12.htm">Psalm 5:12</a>; such also the person, blood, righteousness, and salvation of Christ, who is a sun and shield; the shield of faith, or which faith holds up and defends the soul against the attacks of a powerful enemy, <a href="/psalms/84-11.htm">Psalm 84:11</a>; <p>I hope in thy Word; in Christ the Word, for acceptance and justification, for peace, pardon, and eternal salvation; all which are in him: in the word of promise, for all supplies of grace, strength, light, life, and comfort here, and for glory hereafter, contained therein; see <a href="/psalms/119-74.htm">Psalm 119:74</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/psalms/119.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/119.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">114</span>. Cp. <a href="/psalms/32-7.htm" title="You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.">Psalm 32:7</a>; <a href="/psalms/28-7.htm" title="The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.">Psalm 28:7</a>; <a href="/psalms/119-74.htm" title="They that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word.">Psalm 119:74</a>; <a href="/psalms/119-81.htm" title="My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.">Psalm 119:81</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/119.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 114.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Thou art my Hiding-place</span> (comp. <a href="/psalms/27-5.htm">Psalm 27:5</a>; <a href="/psalms/32-7.htm">Psalm 32:7</a>; <a href="/psalms/91-1.htm">Psalm 91:1</a>). <span class="cmt_word">And my Shield</span>; <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. my protection (see <a href="/psalms/3-3.htm">Psalm 3:3</a>; <a href="/psalms/18-2.htm">Psalm 18:2, 30</a>, etc.). <span class="cmt_word">I hope in thy Word.</span> The promises contained in thy Word are my only sure hope (see ver. 43). Psalm 119:114<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/psalms/119.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>The eightfold Samech. His hope rests on God's word, without allowing itself to be led astray by doubters and apostates. סעפים (the form of nouns which indicate defects or failings) are those inwardly divided, halting between two opinions (סעפּים), <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/18-21.htm">1 Kings 18:21</a>, who do homage partly to the worship of Jahve, partly to heathenism, and therefore are trying to combine faith and naturalism. In contrast to such, the poet's love, faith, and hope are devoted entirely to the God of revelation; and to all those who are desirous of drawing him away he addresses in <a href="/psalms/119-115.htm">Psalm 119:115</a> (cf. <a href="/psalms/6-9.htm">Psalm 6:9</a>) an indignant "depart." He, however, stands in need of grace in order to persevere and to conquer. For this he prays in <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/119-116.htm">Psalm 119:116-117</a>. The מן in משּׁברי is the same as in בּושׁ מן. The ah of ואשׁעה is the intentional ah (Ew. 228, c), as in <a href="/isaiah/41-23.htm">Isaiah 41:23</a>. The statement of the ground of the סלית, vilipendis, does not mean: unsuccessful is their deceit (Hengstenberg, Olshausen), but falsehood without the consistency of truth is their self-deceptive and seductive tendency. The lxx and Syriac read תּרעיתם, "their sentiment;" but this is an Aramaic word that is unintelligible in Hebrew, which the old translators have conjured into the text only on account of an apparent tautology. The reading השּׁבתּ or חשׁבתּ (Aquila, Symmachus, and Jerome; lxx ἐλογισάμην, therefore חשׁבתי) instead of חשׁבתּ might more readily be justified in <a href="/psalms/119-119.htm">Psalm 119:119</a>; but the former gives too narrow a meaning, and the reading rests on a mistaking of the construction of השׁבית with an accusative of the object and of the effect: all the wicked, as many of them as are on the earth, dost Thou put away as dross (סגים( ssor). Accordingly משׁפטיך in <a href="/psalms/119-120.htm">Psalm 119:120</a> are God's punitive judgments, or rather (cf. <a href="/psalms/119-91.htm">Psalm 119:91</a>) God's laws (judgments) according to which He judges. What is meant are sentences of punishment, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/26.htm">Leviticus 26</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>. Of these the poet is afraid, for omnipotence can change words into deeds forthwith. 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