Psalms 119:29
The way of falsehood do thou remove from me, and grant me graciously thy law.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
In Context
28My soul droppeth away from grief: sustain me according to thy word.
30The way of truth have I chosen: thy ordinances have I set [before me].
Cross References
Psalms 119:5Oh that my ways were firmly directed to observe thy statutes!
Psalms 119:104Through thy precepts shall I obtain understanding: therefore do I hate every path of falsehood.
Psalms 119:163Falsehood I hate and abhor: but thy law do I love.
Proverbs 30:8Vanity and lying words do thou remove far from me: neither poverty nor riches give thou unto me; let me eat the bread appointed unto me:
Jeremiah 16:19O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge on the day of trouble, unto thee shall nations come from the ends of the earth, and say, Nothing but falsehood had our fathers inherited, vanity, wherein there is no profit.
Jonah 2:8(2:9) They that guard false vanities forsake [the source of] their kindness.
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 →