Psalm 119, Part 11 – Psa 119:161-176 “SCHIN” and “TAU”

Psa 119:161  SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Psa 119:162  I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Psa 119:163  I hate and abhor lying: thy law do I love.
Psa 119:164  Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psa 119:165  Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Psa 119:166  LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
Psa 119:167  My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
Psa 119:168  I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

Psa 119:169  TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
Psa 119:170  Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
Psa 119:171  My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
Psa 119:172  My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Psa 119:173  Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
Psa 119:174  I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Psa 119:175  Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Psa 119:176  I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

In this study we will look at the scriptures centered around the letters “SCHIN” and “TAU”, the 21st and 22nd and the last letters in the Hebrew alphabet.

Gale brought to my attention that the first verse and last verse of this Psalm have something to say about hoping in the sum of God’s word, and how from the start and until the end of this particular Psalm the servant of God is said to be blessed to walk in the law of the LORD, and knows that he is able to do that because of the judgment expressed in Psa 119:175 that have helped him. This lost sheep went astray and can now say “I do not forget thy commandments”. The type and shaddow lesson for God’s people today is that all have sinned and gone astray and come short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23) and only because of God’s mercy upon us (Rom 11:30-33), today expressed through that judgment which helps us learn obedience (Heb 5:8, 1Jn 4:17, 1Pe 4:17) can we hear the Shepherd’s voice (Joh 10:27-29).

Psa 119:1  ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Psa 119:176  I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Psa 119:175  Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

There is a hope filled message in all of these verses of Psalm 119 and Psalm 119:160 reveals this hope is established upon the better promises (Heb 8:6) which are typified in the old covenant and fulfilled in Christ in the new covenant, but all the promises are in Him the Alpha and the Omega (2Co 1:20). Consequently through Christ we can have peace that passes all understanding (Php 4:7) knowing that “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever” because Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end (Rev 22:13) who “is before all things, and by him all things consist” as our hope of glory within (Col 1:17, Col 1:27).

God’s elect are blessed to be given to “hope all things” (1Co 13:7) found in the sum of His word (Psa 119:160) as they apply inwardly in our heavens (Heb 9:23) and are given to understand that it is Christ who has those words of eternal life (Joh 6:68) which we can now appreciate for what they can do in our heavens as we are quickened by those words of spirit through our hope of glory within us (Joh 6:63, Col 1:27). Truly the spirit bears witness that we are his sons and daughters (Rom 8:16) and as such our “heart standeth in awe of thy word” (1Jn 3:1, Psa 119:161).

It is through judgment that we turn back from being those lost sheep mentioned in Psalm 119:175-176, and here are some verses which show us God is the one who is rending the heart of His people in this age (Joe 2:12-13, Rom 2:4). We can see ourselves in these verses which are parables revealing how we are meant to not handle the word of God correctly at first (Isa 28:10-13, 1Pe 2:4, Luk 23:34).

Isa 28:10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isa 28:11  For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isa 28:12  To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isa 28:13  But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

And now speaking of those whom God has called out of Babylon (Rev 18:4) and to whom he has given to overcome the wicked one (1Jn 2:15) who has “blinded the minds of them which believe not” (2Co 4:4), we read this:

1Pe 2:4  To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ [Eph 2:20-22].

1Pe 2:8  And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word [Isa 28:10-13], being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Joe 2:12  Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Joe 2:13  And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Rom 2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? […he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.]

Mar 15:24  And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.

Luk 23:34  Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Joh 19:23  Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts [The whole of humanity (4)], to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
Joh 19:24  They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

Pro 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap [Christ’s garments – his words wrapped around the idol of our hearts (Eze 14:3)]; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD. [Here is what the whole disposing of accomplishes in God’s great hands. (Eph 1:11, Isa 45:7, 1Co 15:22, 1Jn 2:2, 1Ti 4:10)]

Gen 45:8  So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Mal 3:7  Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Psa 119:161  SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Psa 119:161 SHIN: Princes have persecuted me without cause; but my heart has feared^H6342 at Your Word. LITV (Heb 5:7, 1Jn 4:17)

Psa 119:161 Chief men, they persecute me gratuitously, Yet my heart stands in awe before Your word.”

Just because princes persecute us without cause does not mean it was not orchestrated by God (Act 4:27-28) who sent those who come up against us to prove the righteousness of Christ within us (Isa 42:21, Jer 23:16). What we are to learn through all such persecutions is that God is for us, and therefore who can lay anything to the charge of His elect with whom he is working in this life (Rom 8:33)? In other words, God determined these judgments to come upon us as He did which came upon Christ before the foundation of the world so we could bring forth much fruit (Eph 1:4-6). These spiritual wrestling matches we have throughout our life are for our growth (1Jn 4:17, Eph 6:12, Gen 32:24).

Act 4:27  For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
Act 4:28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done [1Jn 4:17].

Isa 42:21  The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

Jer 23:16  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

Rom 8:33  Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

That also does not mean that the trial of our faith will be any less fiery “in the day of judgment” (1Pe 4:17, 1Pe 4:12) as Christ works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Php 2:13) which is to have us learn obedience by the things we suffer (Heb 5:8), things which bring us to our wits’ end so we no longer rely on our flesh but rather are blessed to say “but my heart has feared^H6342 at Your Word” (Rev 1:3).

Heb 5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared^G2124;

H6342
paw-khad’
A primitive root; to be startled (by a sudden alarm); hence to fear in general: – be afraid, stand in awe, (be in) fear, make to shake.

G2124
yoo-lab’-i-ah
From G2126; properly caution, that is, (religiously) reverence (piety); by implication dread (concretely): – fear (-ed).

Psa 119:162  I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Psa 119:163  I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Psa 119:164  Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

When we’re told in the old covenant “I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil” the corresponding verse in the new covenant which comes to mind is Philippians 4:4, which says “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

The word rejoice is twice mentioned in Philippians 4:4 because Christ, the true witness (2) in this life (Rev 1:5), is our wisdom (1Co 1:30, 2Co 4:7), our “great spoil” to which wisdom is likened in Proverbs (Pro 2:3-5, 2Co 4:7).

These are the lies that “I hate and abhor“; the ones that are found in the first chapter of Proverbs which draw people away from that wisdom of Christ to make disciples after themselves.

Pro 1:10  My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Pro 1:11  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Pro 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit [Num 16:28-35]:
Pro 1:13  We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Act 20:30  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

As we read in Numbers, we provoke the Lord, and the Lord does a new thing by taking away that part of the body which is not approved (1Co 11:19), and it causes great fear that motivates us “Lest the earth swallow us up also” as it did Ananias and Sapphira (Act 5:3-5). The 250 men of reknown who died is not a “common death” (Num 16:29-30) but rather a death that typifies the grace and faith (250 or 25×10) that will happen within the lives of all those whom God is judging in this age, and saving as a result of that judgment, just as Judas’ death also reflects the destruction of the man of perdition within us in this age, who is being destroyed by the brightness of His coming within us (Eph 2:8, 2Th 2:3-8).

God has ordained that this drawing away spoken of in Acts 20:30 should happen to some, demonstrating the opposite effect of John 6:44, which happens as a result of not fearing to break God’s commandments that brings about these conditions described in Proverbs 1:22-33 which God has allowed to manifest to show with whom He is working in this age (1Co 11:19).

Pro 1:23  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Pro 1:24  Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Pro 1:25  But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Pro 1:26  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Pro 1:27  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Pro 1:28  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Pro 1:29  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Pro 1:30  They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Pro 1:31  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Pro 1:32  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Pro 1:33  But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

1Co 11:19  For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

The “Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments” is a shadow of the complete (7) and living sacrifice to which God’s elect have been called and can obtain because of the righteousness of Christ given to us (1Th 5:17-18, Rom 12:1-2, Php 3:9, Rom 8:9, Isa 42:21).

1Th 5:17  Pray without ceasing.
1Th 5:18  In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Php 3:9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Isa 42:21  The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

Psa 119:165  Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

The “great peace” we are seeking is not something that can be found in our fleshly mind but rather with the mind of Christ (1Co 2:16) which tells us there is a peace that passes all natural understanding (Php 4:7), and it is a gift from God that will be needed time and again to live in a world which says peace, peace when there is no peace (Jer 6:14).

1Co 2:16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Php 4:7  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Jer 6:14  They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

We are called to labour to enter into that rest to “stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved” (Php 4:1) as “fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life” (Php 4:3, Rev 20:12) who have been called to be as lively stones (1Pe 2:5) who offer up prayer for one another in this matter being “careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God”.

If we are granted to do these afore mentioned things “giving all diligence” to fulfill these verses as well (2Pe 1:4-8) then it will be because the Lord has blessed us in this age so “these things be in you”, and we will as a result of the righteousness of Christ be able to “love thy law: and nothing shall offend them“.

2Pe 1:4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8  For if these things be in you [Php 2:13, Rom 8:9], and abound [Heb 2:3], they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psa 119:166  LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
Psa 119:167  My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
Psa 119:168  I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

These verses describe the love the true bride of Christ should have for her husband, as He fills us with “hoped for thy salvation” (Luk 12:32).

When we look at the faces of Christ, we are seeing the angel which was typified in this time in Gideon’s life that reminds us how we are angels one to another, who quicken each other with the word of God (Rev 8:1-2, Rev 8:5) through our communion of suffering referenced in the meal prepared by Gideon (Jdg 6:19) and was written for our sakes today (Jdg 6:11-23, 1Co 10:16-17).

Jdg 6:11  And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites [Col 3:3].
Jdg 6:12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. [This was not enough confirmation for the spiritually immature Gideon.]
Jdg 6:13  And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? [Job 2:10] and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
Jdg 6:14  And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? [Mat 4:19]
Jdg 6:15  And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house. [Exo 4:10]
Jdg 6:16  And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. [Php 2:13]
Jdg 6:17  And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a signthat thou talkest with me. [Signs are for the spiritually immature, and Gideon needed faith and help with his unbelief that he could “save Israel from the hand of the Midianites“. (Luk 22:32, Mar 9:24)]
Jdg 6:18  Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again [Luk 24:49].

All doubt, all immaturity is symbolically going to be dealt with now in these next verses:

Jdg 6:19  And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
Jdg 6:20  And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. [Mat 16:18]
Jdg 6:21  Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Jdg 6:22  And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face. [1Co 13:12]
Jdg 6:23  And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die [1Co 10:16-17].

1Co 10:16  The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
1Co 10:17  For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

Our hope is the hope of glory within each of us (Col 1:27), and we are to follow each other as we follow Christ (1Co 11:1) and in doing that we can say “My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly“. As a result of that obedience of keeping His commandments, we will nourish each other through this communion we share as the body of Christ. If we are granted to do this, then again we can say “I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee“.

“All my ways” that are before God must continue to be examined to be sure they are in line with His will (2Co 13:5), even thou we know it is God who is working in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Php 2:12-15).

2Co 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Php 2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Php 2:14  Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Php 2:15  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Psa 119:169  TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
Psa 119:170  Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
Psa 119:171  My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
Psa 119:172  My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Psa 119:173  Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
Psa 119:174  I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Psa 119:175  Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Psa 119:176  I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

This last section of Psalm 119 explains the hunger and thirst that we are blessed to have for “thy word…thy statutes…thy precepts…thy law…thy judgments” and “thy commandments” and how God will fill that hunger He places in our hearts through Christ our hope of glory (Mat 5:6, Col 1:27).

Mat 5:6  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

We sigh and cry (Eze 9:4) and make supplications for each other (Php 4:6-7), and God’s spirit groans within us things that can’t be uttered in our flesh as the body of Christ “according to thy word” (Rom 8:26) as we ask our Father to “deliver” us or heal us with the word He sends (Psa 107:20).

Psa 107:20  He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

That collective cry of the body of Christ comes “near before thee, O LORD“, and it is the fervent supplication of the saints which “come before thee” that will ultimately prevent the world from being destroyed (Mat 24:22). All men are blotted out of the book of life, but it is the elect who are first to be reinstated into that book so that we can be used to save the rest of the world (Psa 86:7, Exo 32:32-33).

We also utter praise and bring forth the sacrifice of praise “the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name” because God heals and purifies our hearts today (Isa 6:6-8, Heb 13:15) and we are thankful that “his mercy endureth for ever” and that we can now be sent to heal others because we have been healed (Psa 107:1).

Isa 6:6  Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Isa 6:7  And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Isa 6:8  Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. […now that I am cleansed send me to heal others with your word (Luk 22:32)].

Heb 13:15  By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Psa 107:1  O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

God is the one who gives us the confidence and the conviction to say He is my helper (Heb 13:6, Rom 8:38, Eph 3:17-19, Php 1:6-7) as we hold fast to His word and look stedfastly to Christ (Heb 12:1-3, Rom 12:1-3, Heb 11:25). We therefore “have longed for thy salvation, O LORD” and are groaning within for that redemption of our bodies (Rom 8:21-25). If you “Let my soul live…it shall praise thee” as typified with this account of Christ’s life (Luk 19:37-40).

Luk 19:37  And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
Luk 19:38  Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Luk 19:39  And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
Luk 19:40  And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. [We are those lively stones being typified that “cry out” in this verse simply because God has “Let my soul live” (1Pe 2:5, Job 5:23)].

God alone can let our soul live by dragging us to our Lord through “thy judgments” that “help me” (Joh 6:44) and He is the good shepherd who goes after the sheep, those who are “gone astray like a lost sheep” to do that very thing as He saves us, not letting any one of us out of His hand (Joh 18:9) so we can in turn speak in a very personal and heartfelt way of His great mercy to others one day (Gen 45:5), showing the same mercy He showed to us to those who will be saved in the predetermined order God has ordained for all men to be saved (Mat 20:16).