Psalms 119:104
Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
In Context
103How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!
105NUN Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
Cross References
Job 32:9It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.
Psalms 97:10You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.
Psalms 119:29Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.
Psalms 119:98Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.
Psalms 119:128Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:104-105
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Here is, 1. The wonderful pleasure and delight which David took in the word of God; it was sweet to his taste, sweeter than honey. There is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things, such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience, as we cannot give to others. We have heard him ourselves, John iv. 42 . To this… Read the whole commentary →