Psalms 119:128
Therefore do I esteem all thy precepts in all things as right: every path of falsehood do I hate.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
In Context
127Therefore do I love thy commandments more than gold, and more than fine gold.
129PE. Wonderful are thy testimonies: therefore doth my soul keep them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:8And what great nation is there that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as is all this law, which I lay before you this day?
Psalms 18:22(18:23) For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes had I not put away from me.
Psalms 119:6Then would I not be made ashamed, while I look at all thy commandments.
Psalms 119:118Thou hast trodden down all that erringly stray from thy statutes; for falsehood is their deceit.
Proverbs 30:5Every saying of God is purified: he is a shield unto those that put their trust in him.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:128-129
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. David here, as often in this psalm, professes the great love he had to the word and law of God; and, to evidence the sincerity of it, observe, 1. The degree of his love. He loved his Bible better than he loved his money— above gold, yea, above fine gold. Gold, fine gold, is what most men set their hearts upon; nothing charms them and dazzles… Read the whole commentary →