Psalms 119:8
I keep Your statutes, do not utterly leave me!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
In Context
7I confess You with uprightness of heart, || In my learning the judgments of Your righteousness.
9[BETH] With what does a young man purify his path? To observe—according to Your word.
Cross References
Psalms 38:21Do not forsake me, O YHWH, || My God, do not be far from me,
Psalms 71:9Do not cast me off at the time of old age, || Do not forsake me according to the consumption of my power.
Psalms 119:16I delight myself in Your statutes, || I do not forget Your word.
Psalms 119:115Turn aside from me, you evildoers, || And I keep the commands of my God.
Psalms 119:176I wandered as a lost sheep, [so] seek Your servant, || For I have not forgotten Your precepts!
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:8-9
7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. 8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. Here is, I. David's endeavour to perfect himself in his religion, and to make himself (as we say) master of his business. He hopes to learn God's righteous judgments. He knew much, but he was still pressing forward and desired to know more, as knowing this, that he had not yet attained; but as far as perfection is attainable in this life he reached towards it, and… Read the whole commentary →