Psalms 119:54

“Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.] Meaning either his unsettled state, fleeing from place to place before Saul; or, literally, his house of cedar, his court and palace, which he considered no other than as an inn he had put into upon his travels homeward; or rather the earthly house of his tabernacle, in which, as long as he continued, he was but a pilgrim and stranger; or, best of all, the whole course of his life; which Jacob calls the days of the years of his pilgrimage, (<014709>Genesis 47:9); so Hipparchus the Pythagorean f1660 calls this life a sort of a pilgrimage; and Plato also. This world is not the saints house and home; this is not their rest and…”

“Thy statutes - Thy law; thy commandments. Have been my songs - Have been to me a source of joy; have been my happiness, my consolation, my delight. I have found pleasure in meditating on them; I have had peace and joy in them in the day of loneliness and trouble. The psalmist rejoiced, doubtless, as the good now do, (a) in law itself; law, as a rule of order; law, as a guide of conduct; law, as a security for safety; (b) in such a law as that of God - so pure, so holy, so suited to promote “the happiness of man; (c) in the stability of that law, as constituting his own personal security, the ground of his hope; (d) in law in its influence on the universe, preserving order, and securing…”

“The house - In this world, wherein I am a stranger and pilgrim, as all my fathers were. Psalms 119:55”

“Psa 89:1, Psa 10:1; Gen 47:9; Heb 11:13-16 Psalms 119:55”