Psalms 119:29
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
King James Version
In Context
28My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
30I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psalms 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:163I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Jeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jonah 2:8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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 →