Psalms 119:68
You [are] good, and doing good, || Teach me Your statutes.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
In Context
67Before I am afflicted, I am erring, || And now I have kept Your saying.
69The proud have forged falsehood against me, || I keep Your precepts with the whole heart.
Cross References
Exodus 34:6and YHWH passes over before his face, and calls: “YHWH, YHWH God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,
Psalms 86:5For You, Lord, [are] good and forgiving, || And abundant in kindness to all calling You.
Psalms 107:1“Give thanks to YHWH, || For [He is] good, for His kindness [is] for all time”:
Psalms 119:26I have recounted my ways, || And You answer me, teach me Your statutes,
Isaiah 63:7I make mention of the kind acts of YHWH, || The praises of YHWH, || According to all that YHWH has done for us, || And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, || That He has done for them, || According to His mercies, || And according to the abundance of His kind acts.
Matthew 19:17And He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one [is] good except one—God; but if you will to enter into life, keep the commands.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:68
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. David here tells us what he had experienced, 1. Of the temptations of a prosperous condition: " Before I was afflicted, while I lived in peace and plenty, and knew no sorrow, I went astray from God and my duty." Sin is going astray; and we are most apt to wander from God when we are easy and think ourselves at home in the world. Prosperity is the unhappy occasion of much iniquity; it makes people conceited of themselves, indulgent of the flesh,… Read the whole commentary →