Psalms 119:29
Put the way of falsehood from me, and graciously grant me your law.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
In Context
28I am overcome with sorrow; raise me up, as you have promised.
30I have chosen the way of fidelity, your ordinances I long for.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5O to be steadily guided in the keeping of your statutes!
Psalms 119:104Insight I win through your precepts, therefore every false way I hate.
Psalms 119:163Falsehood I hate and abhor, but your law do I love.
Jonah 2:8Those who worship worthless idols abandon their own mercy,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:29-30
28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. 29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Here is, 1. David's representation of his own griefs: My soul melteth for heaviness, which is to the same purport with v. 25 , My soul cleaveth to the dust. Heaviness in the heart of man makes it to melt, to drop away like a candle that wastes. The penitent soul melts in sorrow for sin, and even the patient soul may melt in the sense of affliction, and it is then its… Read the whole commentary →