Psalms 119:4
You have commanded us to diligently keep Your precepts,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
In Context
3Indeed, they have not done iniquity, || They have walked in His ways.
5O that my ways were prepared to keep Your statutes,
Cross References
Exodus 7:6And Moses does—Aaron also—as YHWH commanded them; so have they done;
Deuteronomy 4:9Only, take heed to yourself, and watch your soul exceedingly, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all [the] days of your life; and you have made them known to your sons and to your sons’ sons.
Deuteronomy 6:3And you have heard, O Israel, and observed to do [them], that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply exceedingly, as YHWH, God of your fathers, has spoken to you, [in] the land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:13And it has been, if you listen diligently to My commands which I am commanding you today, to love your God YHWH, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 12:32The whole thing which I am commanding you, you observe to do it; you do not add to it, nor diminish from it.”
Deuteronomy 30:16in that today I am commanding you to love your God YHWH, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and you have lived and multiplied, and your God YHWH has blessed you in the land to where you are going in to possess it.
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 →