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Psalms 119:5
5If only my ways were committed to keeping your statutes!
Psalms 119:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
- New International Version (NIV)Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees!
- English Standard Version (ESV)Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Oh, that my ways were directed To keep Your statutes!
Context of Psalms 119:5
3They do nothing wrong; they walk in his ways. 4You have commanded that your precepts be diligently kept. If only my ways were committed to keeping your statutes! 6Then I would not be ashamed when I think about all your commands. 7I will praise you with an upright heart when I learn your righteous judgments.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:5 word by word
אַ֭חֲלַי יִכֹּ֥נוּ דְרָכָ֗י לִשְׁמֹ֥ר חֻקֶּֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:5
- Psalms 119:32I pursue the way of your commands, for you broaden my understanding.
- Psalms 51:10God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
- Jeremiah 31:33“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days” — the Lord’s declaration. “I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Romans 7:22For in my inner self I delight in God’s law,
- 2 Thessalonians 3:6Now we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother or sister who is idle and does not live according to the tradition received from us.
- Hebrews 13:21equip you with everything good to do his will, working in us what is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5O that my ways were directed - "I wish that my way may be confirmed to keep thy statutes." Without thee I can do nothing; my soul is unstable and fickle; and it will continue weak and uncertain till thou strengthen and establish it.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5O that my ways were directed - Indicating the desire of the pious heart. That desire - a prevailing, constant, uniform desire - is to keep the law of God. It is the aim of the life; it is the supreme purpose of the soul; it is the ruling wish of the man, thus to keep the law of God. He in whose bosom this is not the constant wish cannot be a pious man. The Hebrew particle used here, and rendered “O that,” is a particle denoting a wish, or an earnest…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-8Aleph (א) is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Psalm 119 is written as an acrostic poem. Each section has eight verses, and every verse in that section begins with the same Hebrew letter. The first section begins with Aleph. God, the author of these instructions, commands that his followers live by them. The psalmist prays to be given the grace to live by that revelation.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. precepts--are those directions which relate to special conduct, from a word meaning "to inspect." statutes--or ordinances, positive laws of permanent nature. Both words originally denote rather positive than moral laws, such as derive force from the divine appointment, whether their nature or the reasons for them are apprehended by us or not. commandments--or institutions. The term is comprehensive, but rather denotes fundamental directions for…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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