 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 618 pages
...taste ; yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. I love thy commandments above gold ; yea, above fine gold. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver ! " He gives the reasons of his high estimation of the word of God in the nineteenth Psalm. " The law... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...delight in thy law. 71 It is good for me that I have been afflwted ; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. JOD. 73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me : give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.... | |
 | 1842 - 488 pages
...Indeed, indeed I would." I thought of David's expression in the mndred and nineteenth "Psalm, " The aw of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver," and secretly blessed God for having bestowed a jortion of the same spirit on this poor xeature. "Yes,"... | |
 | Thomas Becon - 1843 - 532 pages
...commandments, for that is my desire. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not unto covetousness." "The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." " The wicked men have told me tales, but nothing agreeable to thy law. For all thy commandments are... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1844 - 672 pages
...teach me thy statutes. It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me : give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - 1844 - 582 pages
...teach me thy statutes. It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me : give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1844 - 404 pages
...of that holy feeling which induced the psalmist to exclaim, not only with truth, but with fervour, " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver."* [Here may be read from verse 11, chapter xxvii., to the end of the chapter.] * Ps. cxix. 72. EXPOSITION... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1844 - 490 pages
...are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb." Ps.ii9.72. "The law of Thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of vtr. i03. gold and silver." " How sweet are Thy words unto my lips ! Sweeter than honey to my mouth."... | |
 | 1845 - 226 pages
...clause) and 72. — It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. It is far better to learn by suffering to delight in God's word, and to value it more than thousands... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pages
...us to pursue. Alone, supremely, eternally happy, is he, who can say unfeignedly with the psalmist, " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver, "f The mines of Mexico contain a variety of metals, but are chiefly celebrated for those of gold and... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. 
