Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of fidelity, your ordinances I long for.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
In Context
29Put the way of falsehood from me, and graciously grant me your law.
31I hold fast to your charges: O put me not, Lord, to shame.
Cross References
Joshua 24:15If you are unwilling to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve, either the gods your ancestors served on the east of the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Psalms 18:23And I was blameless before him, guarding myself from sin.
Psalms 119:29Put the way of falsehood from me, and graciously grant me your law.
Psalms 119:111In your charges are my everlasting inheritance, they are the joy of my heart.
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 →