Psalms 119:1
A Canticle in steps. When troubled, I cried out to the Lord, and he heard me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
In Context
2O Lord, free my soul from lips of iniquity and from the deceitful tongue.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:22For I have kept to the ways of the Lord, and I have not acted impiously before my God.
2 Chronicles 31:20Therefore, Hezekiah did all these things (which we have said) in all of Judah. And he worked what is good and upright and true before the Lord his God,
Job 1:8And the Lord said to him, “Have you not considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil.”
Psalms 32:1A Psalm of David. Exult in the Lord, you just ones; together praise the upright.
Psalms 101:6Before the voice of my groaning, my bone has adhered to my flesh.
Psalms 128:1A Canticle in steps. They have often fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say:
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:1
This is a psalm by itself, like none of the rest; it excels them all, and shines brightest in this constellation. It is much longer than any of them more than twice as long as any of them. It is not making long prayers that Christ censurers, but making them for a pretence, which intimates that they are in themselves good and commendable. It seems to me to be a collection of David's pious and devout ejaculations, the short and sudden breathings and elevations of his soul to God, which he wrote down as they… Read the whole commentary →