Psalms 119:30
I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
In Context
29Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.
31I have been true to your unchanging word; O Lord, do not put me to shame.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;
Joshua 24:15And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Psalms 18:23\18:22\For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
Psalms 119:29Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.
Psalms 119:111I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.
Proverbs 1:29For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
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 →