Psalms 119:163
Falsehood I hate and abhor, but your law do I love.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
In Context
162Over your word I rejoice as one who finds great spoil.
164Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments.
Cross References
Psalms 119:29Put the way of falsehood from me, and graciously grant me your law.
Psalms 119:104Insight I win through your precepts, therefore every false way I hate.
Psalms 119:128So I guide my life by your precepts, and every false way I hate.
Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good, establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to a surviving remnant of Joseph.
Ephesians 4:25Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors. For we are united to one another like the parts of a body.
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 →