Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
The psalm belongs to a song that exalts God's law as the rule of life, with God's Word laying out the principles of righteousness and drawing a clear line between right and wrong and between truth and error. Its cry is weeping grief with rivers of tears running down the eyes because others do not keep that law. Such defiance of the commandments is an insult to Him, and the sorrow of the cry stands joined to the warning that He will at last intervene against such wickedness.
The anguish is the same anguish felt when weeping over obdurate, unyielding Jerusalem while pronouncing its irrevocable sentence, distress over the loss of a nation as a symbol of giving up a world. Those who can sincerely speak the words partake with Christ in the depths of His compassion as far as human perception can grasp. So did Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Jeremiah, and Paul, who wept day and night for the slain of their people and even wished to be accursed for their brethren. That sympathy of heart beating in unison with Christ is needed to understand watching for souls as those who must give an account, to feel tender longing for souls He died to save, and to know the value of the human soul.
In the last days, when open contempt is placed upon God's law, God's commandment-keeping people make these words their own song. Their fidelity and loyalty grow with the emergency, so that the contempt placed upon the law only makes their love for that law more decided and increased. Even while weeping over disobedience they love the commandments above gold, esteem all the precepts concerning all things to be right, and hate every false way. They pray for mercy and for deliverance from oppression and for teaching, and so proclaim the third angel's message with heart and voice.
The psalm belongs to a song that exalts God's law as the rule of life, with God's Word laying out the principles of righteousness and drawing a clear line between right and wrong and between truth and error. Its cry is weeping grief with rivers of tears running down the eyes because others do not keep that law. Such defiance of the commandments is an insult to Him, and the sorrow of the cry stands joined to the warning that He will at last intervene against such wickedness.
The anguish is the same anguish felt when weeping over obdurate, unyielding Jerusalem while pronouncing its irrevocable sentence, distress over the loss of a nation as a symbol of giving up a world. Those who can sincerely speak the words partake with Christ in the depths of His compassion as far as human perception can grasp. So did Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Jeremiah, and Paul, who wept day and night for the slain of their people and even wished to be accursed for their brethren. That sympathy of heart beating in unison with Christ is needed to understand watching for souls as those who must give an account, to feel tender longing for souls He died to save, and to know the value of the human soul.
In the last days, when open contempt is placed upon God's law, God's commandment-keeping people make these words their own song. Their fidelity and loyalty grow with the emergency, so that the contempt placed upon the law only makes their love for that law more decided and increased. Even while weeping over disobedience they love the commandments above gold, esteem all the precepts concerning all things to be right, and hate every false way. They pray for mercy and for deliverance from oppression and for teaching, and so proclaim the third angel's message with heart and voice.