Psalms 119:163
Falsehood, I hate and abhor, Thy law, do I love.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
In Context
162Joyful am I over thy word, Like the finder of spoil in abundance.
164Seven times in the day, have I praised thee, For thy righteous regulations.
Cross References
Psalms 119:29The way of falsehood, take thou from me, and, with thy law, O favour me.
Psalms 119:104Out of thy precepts, will I get understanding, For this cause, do I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:128For this cause, all thy precepts concerning all things, I deem right, Every way of falsehood, I hate.
Proverbs 13:5A word of falsehood, the righteous man, hateth, but, the lawless, causeth shame and disgrace.
Amos 5:15Hate wrong, and love right, and station, Justice, in the gate,—Peradventure, Yahweh, God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Ephesians 4:25Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:163
162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. Here is, 1. The pleasure David took in the word of God. He rejoiced at it, rejoiced that God had made such a discovery of his mind, that Israel was blessed with that light when other nations sat in darkness, that he was himself let into the understanding of it and had had experience of the power of it. He took a pleasure in reading it, hearing it, and meditating on it, and every thing he met with in it was agreeable to him. He had just now said that his… Read the whole commentary →