Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
In Context
29Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
31I cling to Your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
Joshua 24:15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
Psalms 18:23And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
Psalms 119:29Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
Psalms 119:111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
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 →