Psalms 119:102
From thy ordinances have I not departed; for thou hast instructed me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
In Context
101From every evil path have I withholden my feet, in order that I might observe thy word.
103How much sweeter are to my palate thy sayings than honey to my mouth!
Cross References
Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted by his power: who is an instructer like him?
Proverbs 5:7And now, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:102
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. Here is, 1. David's care to avoid the ways of sin: " I have refrained my feet from the evil ways they were ready to step aside into. I checked myself and drew back as soon as I was aware that I was entering into temptation." Though it was a broad way, a green way, a pleasant way, and a way that many walked in, yet, being a sinful way, it was an evil way, and he refrained his feet from it, foreseeing the end of that way. And his care was… Read the whole commentary →