Psalms 119:118
All who swerve from your statutes you spurn: their cunning is in vain.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
In Context
117Hold me up, and I shall be saved: and your statutes shall be my unceasing delight.
119All the wicked of earth you count as dross, therefore I love your charges.
Cross References
Psalms 78:36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
Psalms 95:10“For forty years I was filled with loathing for that generation, so I said: ‘A people with wandering hearts are they, and ignorant of my ways.’
Psalms 119:21You rebuke the proud, the accursed, who wander from your commandments.
Malachi 4:3In the day when I act you will tread down the wicked, they will be as ashes under the soles of your feet,” says the Lord of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:117-118
116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. 117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. Here, 1. David prays for sustaining grace; for this grace sufficient he besought the Lord twice: Uphold me; and again, Hold thou me up. He sees himself not only unable to go on in his duty by any strength of his own, but in danger of falling into sin unless he was prevented by divine grace; and therefore he is thus earnest for… Read the whole commentary →