Marcus Honeysett on Psalm 119

The assumption of Ps 119 is that we come to the Bible not merely to be educated but to be enriched. Not just to know, but to delight, to worship, to marvel, to wonder. People who have started to taste want to carry on tasting more and more because what we have tasted of God in the Word is marvels and wonders for our amazement, enjoyment and treasure. We are meant to cry out "I WANT SOME MORE" because this is so good. Or, as the Psalmist puts it, "to be consumed with longing."

May on Psalms

Book of Psalms is a virtual compendium of themes and topics found in the rest of the Old Testament. The marvelous works of God in creation, judgment, and salvation, Israel's story, the law of life, the Holy City and the Presence there, the once and future Davidic messiah, warning against wickedness and exhortation to righteousness, the majesty and tragedy of the human condition, the everlasting and present and coming kingdom of God all belong to the agenda of the psalms