Revised Literal Translation
Psalms 18:21
21For I have kept the ways of Yhwh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psalms 18:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
- New International Version (NIV)For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I am not guilty of turning from my God.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For I have kept the ways of the Lord, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
Context of Psalms 18:21
19He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20Yhwh rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of Yhwh, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. 23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Read all of Psalms 18Psalms 18:21 word by word
כִּֽי־שָׁ֭מַרְתִּי דַּרְכֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְלֹֽא־רָ֝שַׁ֗עְתִּי מֵאֱלֹהָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 18:21
- Psalms 17:4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
- Psalms 26:1Judge me, O Yhwh; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Yhwh; therefore I shall not slide.
- Psalms 119:10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
- Acts 24:16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:10Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
- Psalms 119:102I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
- 1 Samuel 15:11It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto Yhwh all night.
- 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Commentaries on Psalms 18:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21I have kept the ways of the Lord - I was neither an infidel nor a profligate; I trusted in God, and carefully observed all the ordinances of his religion.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21For I have kept the ways of the Lord - I have obeyed his laws. I have not so violated the laws which God has given to regulate my conduct with my fellow-men as to deserve to be treated by them as a guilty man. And have not wickedly departed from my God - “I have not been a sinner from my God;” an apostate; an open violator of his law. The treatment which I have received, though it would be justly rendered to an open violator of law, is not that which I…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-28Verses 20-28 Those that forsake the ways of the Lord, depart from their God. But though conscious to ourselves of many a false step, let there not be a wicked departure from our God. David kept his eye upon the rule of God's commands. Constant care to keep from that sin, whatever it be, which most easily besets us, proves that we are upright before God. Those who show mercy to others, even they need mercy. Those who are faithful to God, shall find him all…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21kept the ways of the LORD: The psalmist follows God's instructions faithfully (see Psalm 25:8–10). have not wickedly departed: The psalmist avoids foolishness (see Psalms 1 and 14) and chooses wisdom (see Psalms 1 and 15).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 20-2420-24. The statements of innocence, righteousness, &c., refer, doubtless, to his personal and official conduct and his purposes, during all the trials to which he was subjected in Saul's persecutions and Absalom's rebellions, as well as the various wars in which he had been engaged as the head and defender of God's Church and people.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 18
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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