Psalms 119:29
The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
In Context
28My soul hath dropped from affliction, Establish me according to Thy word.
30The way of faithfulness I have chosen, Thy judgments I have compared,
Cross References
Psalms 119:5O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,
Psalms 119:104From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
Psalms 119:163Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate [it], Thy law I have loved.
Proverbs 30:8Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,
Jeremiah 16:19O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.
Jonah 2:8Those observing lying vanities their own mercy 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 →