American Standard Version
Psalms 119:35
35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments;For therein do I delight.
Psalms 119:35 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
- New International Version (NIV)Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it.
Context of Psalms 119:35
33Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of thy statutes; And I shall keep it unto the end. 34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; For therein do I delight. 36Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness. 37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:35 word by word
הַ֭דְרִיכֵנִי בִּנְתִ֣יב מִצְוֹתֶ֑יךָ כִּי־ב֥וֹ חָפָֽצְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 119:35
- Psalms 119:27Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: So shall I meditate on thy wondrous works.
- Ezekiel 36:26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
- Philippians 2:13for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
- Hebrews 13:21make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- Psalms 23:3He restoreth my soul: He guideth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- Proverbs 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.
- Proverbs 4:11I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness.
- Proverbs 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
- Isaiah 2:3And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 48:17Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
- Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. ג GIMEL.
- Isaiah 58:13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
- Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- 1 John 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:35
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 35Make me to go in the path - That is, Incline me to it; so direct me that I shall thus walk. It is an acknowledgment of his dependence on God, that he might be able to carry out the cherished purposes of his soul. For therein do I delight - See Psalm 119:16. I am conscious of having pleasure in thy commandments; of having a strong desire to keep them, and I pray for grace that I may be able to do it. Real delight in the law of God is one of the best…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 33-40Verses 33-40 Teach me thy statutes, not the mere words, but the way of applying them to myself. God, by his Spirit, gives a right understanding. But the Spirit of revelation in the word will not suffice, unless we have the Spirit of wisdom in the heart. God puts his Spirit within us, causing us to walk in his statutes. The sin here prayed against is covetousness. Those that would have the love of God rooted in them, must get the love of the world rooted…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 33-40He (ה) is the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. As a student, the poet asks his teacher, God, to renew life and to transform disgrace into righteousness.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33-3833-38. To encourage us in prayer for divine aid in adhering to His truth, we are permitted to believe that by His help we shall succeed. the way of thy statutes--that is, the way or manner of life prescribed by them. The help we hope to obtain by prayer is to be the basis on which our resolutions should rest.Read the comment
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- 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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