Psalms 119:5
If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
In Context
4You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.
6Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
Cross References
Psalms 51:10\51:8\Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
Psalms 119:36Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.
Psalms 119:131My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
Psalms 119:173Let your hand be near for my help; for I have given my heart to your orders.
Romans 7:22In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
Hebrews 13:21Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:5-7
4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. We are here taught, 1. To own ourselves under the highest obligations to walk in God's law. The tempter would possess men with an opinion that they are at their liberty whether they will make the word of God their rule or no, that, though it may be good, yet it is not so necessary as they are made to believe it is. He taught our… Read the whole commentary →