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Psalms 119:104
104From Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:104 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
- New International Version (NIV)I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Through Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
Context of Psalms 119:104
102I have not turned aside from Your ordinances, For You Yourself have taught me. 103How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweeter than honey to my mouth! From Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way. 105Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. 106I have sworn [an oath] and have confirmed it, That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:104 word by word
מִפִּקּוּדֶ֥יךָ אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן שָׂנֵ֤אתִי׀ כָּל־אֹ֬רַח שָֽׁקֶר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:104
- Psalms 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For Your words are always with me.
- Psalms 119:128Therefore I esteem as right all Your precepts concerning everything; I hate every false way.
- Psalms 36:4He plans wrongdoing on his bed; He sets himself on a path that is not good; He does not reject or despise evil.
- Psalms 97:10You who love the Lord, hate evil; He protects the souls of His godly ones (believers), He rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
- Psalms 101:3I will set no worthless or wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the practice of those who fall away [from the right path]; It will not grasp hold of me.
- Proverbs 8:13The [reverent] fear and worshipful awe of the Lord includes the hatred of evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way, And the perverted mouth, I hate.
- Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good, And establish justice in the [court of the city] gate. Perhaps the Lord God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph [that is, those who remain after God’s judgment].
- Romans 12:9Love is to be sincere and active [the real thing—without guile and hypocrisy]. Hate what is evil [detest all ungodliness, do not tolerate wickedness]; hold on tightly to what is good.
- Psalms 119:29Remove from me the way of falsehood and unfaithfulness, And graciously grant me Your law.
- Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him, But its end is the way of death.
- Matthew 7:13“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:104
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 104Through thy precepts I get understanding - Spiritual knowledge increases while we tread in the path of obedience. Obedience is the grand means of growth and instruction. Obedience trades with the talent of grace, and thus grace becomes multiplied.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 104Through thy precepts I get understanding - A true understanding; a correct view of things; a knowledge of thee, of myself, of the human character, of the destiny of man, of the way of salvation - the best, and the only essential knowledge for man. This knowledge the psalmist obtained from the “precepts” of God; that is, all that God had communicated by revelation. This passage expresses in few words what had been said more at length in Psalm 119:98-100…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 97-104Verses 97-104 What we love, we love to think of. All true wisdom is from God. A good man carries his Bible with him, if not in his hands, yet in his head and in his heart. By meditation on God's testimonies we understand more than our teachers, when we understand our own hearts. The written word is a more sure guide to heaven, than all the fathers, the teachers, and ancients of the church. We cannot, with any comfort or boldness, attend God in holy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 103-104Wisdom is better than the finest food (Psalm 19:10; 81:16). The psalmist had already turned away from the false promises of foolishness (see Psalm 119:18, 78, 86, 163).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 101-104101-104. Avoidance of sinful courses is both the effect and means of increasing in divine knowledge (compare Psa 19:10). NUN. (Psa 119:105-112).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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