Psalms 119:29
The way of falsehood, take thou from me, and, with thy law, O favour me.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
In Context
28My soul weepeth itself away, for grief, Confirm thou me, according to thy word.
30The way of faithfulness, have I chosen, Thy regulations, have I deemed right.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5Oh would that my ways might be settled! that I might keep thy statutes.
Psalms 119:104Out of thy precepts, will I get understanding, For this cause, do I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:163Falsehood, I hate and abhor, Thy law, do I love.
Proverbs 30:8Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me:
Jeremiah 16:19O Yahweh, my strength, and my refuge, and my place to fly to, in the day of distress,—Unto thee, shall nations come in, out of the ends of the earth, that they may say—Surely! Falsehood, did our fathers inherit, Vanity, among whom is none that can profit:
Jonah 2:8They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake.
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 →