Psalms 119:4
You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
In Context
3They do no evil; they go in his ways.
5If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
Cross References
Exodus 7:6And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so they did.
Deuteronomy 4:9Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;
Deuteronomy 6:3So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:13And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,
Deuteronomy 12:32You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.
Deuteronomy 30:16In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:2-4
1. ALEPH. 1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord . 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. The psalmist here shows that godly people are happy people; they are, and shall be, blessed indeed. Felicity is the thing we all pretend to aim at and pursue. He does not say here wherein it consists; it is enough for us to know what we must do and be that we may attain to it, and that we are here… Read the whole commentary →