Psalms 119:2
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, 1 And from a deceitful tongue. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
In Context
1A Song of Degrees. 1 In mine affliction I cried to the Lord, 1 And he hearkened to me. 1
3What should be given to thee, and what should be added to thee, 1 For thy crafty tongue? 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength.
1 Kings 2:3and keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep the commandments and the ordinances and the judgments which are written in the law of Moses; that thou mayest understand what thou shalt do in all things that I command thee:
2 Chronicles 31:21And in every work which he began in service in the house of the Lord, and in the law, and in the ordinances, he sought his God with all his soul, and wrought, and prospered.
Psalms 105:45And he remembered his covenant, 1 And repented according to the multitude of his mercy. 1
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 →