Psalms 119:4
the sharp arrows of the powerful, along with the burning coals of desolation.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
In Context
3What will be given to you, or what will be added to you, for a deceitful tongue?:
5Woe to me, for my sojourning has been prolonged. I have lived with the inhabitants of Kedar.
Cross References
Exodus 7:6And so, Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had instructed. And so it was done.
Deuteronomy 4:9And so, guard yourself and your soul carefully. You should not forget the words that your eyes have seen, and do not let them be cut away from your heart, throughout all the days of your life. You shall teach them to your sons and to your grandsons,
Deuteronomy 6:3Listen and observe, O Israel, so that you may do just as the Lord has instructed you, and it may be well with you, and you may be multiplied all the more, for the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:13So then, if you obey my commandments, which I am instructing to you this day, so that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with your whole heart and your whole soul,
Deuteronomy 12:32What I command to you, this only shall you do, for the Lord. You may neither add nor subtract anything.”
Deuteronomy 30:16so that you may love the Lord your God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and so that you may live, and he may multiply you and bless you in the land, which you shall enter in order to possess.
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 →