Psalms 119:29
Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
In Context
28My soul is wasted with sorrow; give me strength again in keeping with your word
30I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
Psalms 119:104Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
Psalms 119:163I am full of hate and disgust for false words; but I am a lover of your law.
Proverbs 30:8Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:
Jeremiah 16:19O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
Jonah 2:8\2:7\When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:29-30
28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. 29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Here is, 1. David's representation of his own griefs: My soul melteth for heaviness, which is to the same purport with v. 25 , My soul cleaveth to the dust. Heaviness in the heart of man makes it to melt, to drop away like a candle that wastes. The penitent soul melts in sorrow for sin, and even the patient soul may melt in the sense of affliction, and it is then its… Read the whole commentary →