Psalms 119:2
O Lord, free my soul from lips of iniquity and from the deceitful tongue.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
In Context
1A Canticle in steps. When troubled, I cried out to the Lord, and he heard me.
3What will be given to you, or what will be added to you, for a deceitful tongue?:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.
1 Kings 2:3And observe the care of the Lord your God, so that you walk in his ways, so that you care for his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and testimonies, just as it is written in the law of Moses. So may you understand everything that you do, in any direction that you may turn yourself.
2 Chronicles 31:21for the whole service of the ministry of the house of the Lord, in accord with the law and the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with his whole heart. And he did so, and he prospered.
Psalms 105:45And he was mindful of his covenant, and he repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
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 →