Psalms 119:37
Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
In Context
36Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.
38Give effect to your word to your servant, in whose heart is the fear of you.
Cross References
Numbers 15:39So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:
2 Samuel 11:2Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
Psalms 71:20You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
Psalms 119:40See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.
Proverbs 23:5Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Matthew 5:28But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:36-37
35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. He had before prayed to God to enlighten his understanding, that he might know his duty, and not mistake concerning it; here he prays to God to bow his will, and quicken the active powers of his soul, that he might do his duty; for it is God that works in us both to will and to do, as well as to understand, what is good, Phil. ii. 13 . Both the good head and the good heart… Read the whole commentary →