Psalms 119:104
From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
In Context
103How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.
105[Nun.] A lamp to my foot [is] Thy word, And a light to my path.
Cross References
Job 32:9The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.
Psalms 97:10Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.
Psalms 119:29The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.
Psalms 119:98Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it [is] before me to the age.
Psalms 119:128Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!
Proverbs 8:13The fear of Jehovah [is] to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:104-105
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Here is, 1. The wonderful pleasure and delight which David took in the word of God; it was sweet to his taste, sweeter than honey. There is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things, such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience, as we cannot give to others. We have heard him ourselves, John iv. 42 . To this… Read the whole commentary →