Psalms 119:4
You have commanded us to keep your instructions 1 so that we should carefully observe them. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
In Context
3They do no wrong; 1 they walk in his ways. 1
5Oh, that I would be firmly established 1 in the observance of your statutes! 1
Cross References
Exodus 7:6Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as Yahweh commanded them.
Deuteronomy 4:9Only pay attention and carefully guard yourself, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not leave your heart for all the days of your life. Instead, make them known to your children and your children's children.
Deuteronomy 6:3Therefore listen to them, Israel, and keep them, so that it may go well with you, so that you may greatly multiply, in a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you would do.
Deuteronomy 11:13It will happen, if you will listen diligently to my commandments that I command you today, to love Yahweh your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 12:32Whatever I command you, observe it. Do not add to it or take away from it.
Deuteronomy 30:16If you obey the decrees of Yahweh your God, in which I am commanding you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his regulations, and his statutes, you will live and multiply, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:2-4
1. ALEPH. 1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord . 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. The psalmist here shows that godly people are happy people; they are, and shall be, blessed indeed. Felicity is the thing we all pretend to aim at and pursue. He does not say here wherein it consists; it is enough for us to know what we must do and be that we may attain to it, and that we are here… Read the whole commentary →