Psalms 119:163
I have hated falsehood, indeed I detest [it], || I have loved Your law.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
In Context
162I rejoice concerning Your saying, || As one finding abundant spoil.
164Seven [times] in a day I have praised You, || Because of the judgments of Your righteousness.
Cross References
Psalms 119:29Turn aside the way of falsehood from me || And favor me with Your law.
Psalms 119:104I have understanding from Your precepts, || Therefore I have hated every false path!
Psalms 119:128Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, || I have hated every path of falsehood!
Proverbs 13:5The righteous hates a false word, || And the wicked causes abhorrence, and is confounded.
Amos 5:15Hate evil, and love good, || And set up judgment in the gate, || It may be YHWH, God of Hosts, pities the remnant of Joseph.
Ephesians 4:25For this reason, putting away the lying, each speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another;
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:163
162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. Here is, 1. The pleasure David took in the word of God. He rejoiced at it, rejoiced that God had made such a discovery of his mind, that Israel was blessed with that light when other nations sat in darkness, that he was himself let into the understanding of it and had had experience of the power of it. He took a pleasure in reading it, hearing it, and meditating on it, and every thing he met with in it was agreeable to him. He had just now said that his… Read the whole commentary →