Psalms 119:118
You have trodden down all them that go astray from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
In Context
117Hold you me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto your statutes continually.
119You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.
Cross References
Psalms 78:36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
Psalms 95:10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Psalms 119:21You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do go astray from your commandments.
Proverbs 12:20Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Malachi 4:3And all of you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the LORD of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:117-118
116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. 117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. Here, 1. David prays for sustaining grace; for this grace sufficient he besought the Lord twice: Uphold me; and again, Hold thou me up. He sees himself not only unable to go on in his duty by any strength of his own, but in danger of falling into sin unless he was prevented by divine grace; and therefore he is thus earnest for… Read the whole commentary →