Psalms 119:104
Through thy precepts shall I obtain understanding: therefore do I hate every path of falsehood.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
In Context
103How much sweeter are to my palate thy sayings than honey to my mouth!
105NUN. A lamp unto my feet is thy word, and a light unto my path.
Cross References
Job 32:9Not those rich in years must be always wise: neither do the aged constantly understand what is just.
Psalms 97:10Ye that love the Lord, hate ye the evil: he preserveth the souls of his pious ones; out of the hand of the wicked he ever delivereth them.
Psalms 119:29The way of falsehood do thou remove from me, and grant me graciously thy law.
Psalms 119:98Wiser than my enemy doth thy commandment make me; for it is perpetually with me.
Psalms 119:128Therefore do I esteem all thy precepts in all things as right: every path of falsehood do I hate.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride and arrogance, and the evil way: and the mouth of perverseness do I hate.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:104-105
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Here is, 1. The wonderful pleasure and delight which David took in the word of God; it was sweet to his taste, sweeter than honey. There is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things, such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience, as we cannot give to others. We have heard him ourselves, John iv. 42 . To this… Read the whole commentary →