Psalms 119:29
Remove from me the way of falsehood, and graciously grant me thy law.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
In Context
28My soul melteth for sadness: strengthen me according to thy word.
30I have chosen the way of faithfulness; thy judgments have I set [before me].
Cross References
Psalms 119:5Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psalms 119:104From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path.
Psalms 119:163I hate and abhor falsehood; thy law do I love.
Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:
Jeremiah 16:19Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of distress, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited falsehood [and] vanity; and in these things there is no profit.
Jonah 2:8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:29-30
28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. 29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Here is, 1. David's representation of his own griefs: My soul melteth for heaviness, which is to the same purport with v. 25 , My soul cleaveth to the dust. Heaviness in the heart of man makes it to melt, to drop away like a candle that wastes. The penitent soul melts in sorrow for sin, and even the patient soul may melt in the sense of affliction, and it is then its… Read the whole commentary →