Psalms 119:37
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and you restore life in me in your way.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
In Context
36Incline my heart unto your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
38Establish your word unto your servant, who is devoted to your fear.
Cross References
Numbers 15:39And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that all of you may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that all of you seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which all of you use to go a whoring:
2 Samuel 11:2And it came to pass in an evening-time, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
Psalms 71:20You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall restore life in me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 119:40Behold, I have longed after your precepts: restore life in me in your righteousness.
Proverbs 23:5Will you set yours eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Matthew 5:28But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:36-37
35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. He had before prayed to God to enlighten his understanding, that he might know his duty, and not mistake concerning it; here he prays to God to bow his will, and quicken the active powers of his soul, that he might do his duty; for it is God that works in us both to will and to do, as well as to understand, what is good, Phil. ii. 13 . Both the good head and the good heart… Read the whole commentary →