Psalms 119:29
Prevent me from doing what is wrong, and be kind to me by teaching me your laws.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 119:5I desire that I will faithfully/always obey all ◄your statutes/that you have said that we should do►.
Psalms 119:104Because I have learned ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►, I am able to understand many things; therefore, I hate all evil things that some people do.
Psalms 119:163I thoroughly hate [DOU] all lies but I love your laws.
Proverbs 30:8Help me never to lie or deceive people and do not cause me to become poor or to become rich. Just give me the food that I need;
Jeremiah 16:19Then I prayed, saying, “Yahweh, you are the one who strengthens me and protects me [MET]; you are the one to whom I go when I have troubles. Some day people from nations all over the world will come to you and say, ‘Our ancestors left/gave us only something that was false; they worshiped idols that are completely worthless [DOU].
Jonah 2:8All those who worship worthless idols are rejecting you, the one who could act kindly toward them.
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 →