In this stanza, the psalmist talks about how to fully understand the amazing Word that he described in the last stanza.  In v. 97-99, he talks about meditating on the Word.  Meditating on the Word all day long helps him to be wiser than his enemies and have more insight than his teachers.  Meditating on God’s Word is a path to full understanding of what God wants to tell us through his Word. Next, in v. 100-102, he talks about obedience and how it leads to more understanding than the elders, and that obedience leads to a desire to keep (more…)

After closing the first half of the psalm with a prayer stanza, the psalmist begins the second half with thoughts about what God’s Word is and what it does.  To start the psalm’s first half, he used the first three verses to talk about those who follow God’s Word – those blessed by walking according to the law and keeping the statutes.  He then talked about what followers do – understand obedience and promise to praise God and obey His Word.  In the second half, the first three verses  (v. 89-91) talk about God’s Word, then uses the rest of (more…)