Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
In Context
29Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
31I cling to your statutes, LORD. Don’t let me be disappointed.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
Joshua 24:15If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
Psalms 18:23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psalms 119:29Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
Psalms 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Proverbs 1:29because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of the LORD.
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 →