Psalms 119:69
The proud haue imagined a lie against me: but I wil keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
In Context
68Thou art good and gracious: teach me thy statutes.
70Their heart is fatte as grease: but my delite is in thy Lawe.
Cross References
Psalms 35:11Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.
Psalms 119:2Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies, and seeke him with their whole heart.
Psalms 119:51The proude haue had me exceedingly in derision: yet haue I not declined from thy Lawe.
Psalms 119:157My persecutours and mine oppressours are many: yet doe I not swarue from thy testimonies.
Matthew 5:11Blessed shall ye be when men reuile you, and persecute you, and say all maner of euill against you for my sake, falsely.
Matthew 26:59Nowe the chiefe Priestes and the Elders, and all the whole councill sought false witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:69
68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. Here, 1. David praises God's goodness and gives him the glory of it: Thou art good and doest good. All who have any knowledge of God and dealings with him wilt own that he does good, and therefore will conclude that he is good. The streams of God's goodness are so numerous, and run so full, so strong, to all the creatures, that we must conclude the fountain that is in himself to be inexhaustible. We cannot conceive how much good our God does every day, much… Read the whole commentary →