Psalms 119:29
Remove from me the way of falsehood; and grant me Thy law graciously.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
In Context
28My soul melteth away for heaviness; sustain me according unto Thy word.
30I have chosen the way of faithfulness; Thine ordinances have I set before me.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5Oh that my ways were directed to observe Thy statutes!
Psalms 119:104From Thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:163I hate and abhor falsehood; Thy law do I love.
Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with mine allotted bread;
Jeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge, in the day of affliction, unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: 'Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, vanity and things wherein there is no profit.'
Jonah 2:8(2-9) They that regard 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 →