Psalms 119:104
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
King James Version
In Context
103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Cross References
Job 32:9Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Psalms 97:10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 119:29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Psalms 119:98Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
Psalms 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:104-105
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Here is, 1. The wonderful pleasure and delight which David took in the word of God; it was sweet to his taste, sweeter than honey. There is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things, such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience, as we cannot give to others. We have heard him ourselves, John iv. 42 . To this… Read the whole commentary →