Psalms 119:2
Happy are they who keep his testimonies, that seek him with all their heart.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
In Context
1ALEPH. Happy are they whose way is perfect, who walk in the law of the Lord.
3They also commit no injustice; in his ways do they walk.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
1 Kings 2:3And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses; in order that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;
2 Chronicles 31:21And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he acted with all his heart, and prospered.
Psalms 105:45So that they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Hallelujah.
Psalms 119:17GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant: let me live, that I may observe thy word.
Psalms 119:33HE. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it in all its windings.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:2-4
1. ALEPH. 1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord . 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. The psalmist here shows that godly people are happy people; they are, and shall be, blessed indeed. Felicity is the thing we all pretend to aim at and pursue. He does not say here wherein it consists; it is enough for us to know what we must do and be that we may attain to it, and that we are here… Read the whole commentary →