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Psalms 119:29
29Turn me away from the deceitful way, and be gracious to me with Your Torah.
Psalms 119:29 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
- New International Version (NIV)Keep me from deceitful ways; be gracious to me and teach me your law.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Remove from me the way of lying, And grant me Your law graciously.
Context of Psalms 119:29
27Help me discern the way of Your precepts, so I may meditate on Your wonders. 28My soul weeps with grief. Make me stand firm with Your word. Turn me away from the deceitful way, and be gracious to me with Your Torah. 30I have chosen the way of faithfulness. I have set my heart on Your judgments. 31I cling to Your testimonies. Adonai, do not put me to shame!
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:29 word by word
דֶּֽרֶךְ־שֶׁ֭קֶר הָסֵ֣ר מִמֶּ֑נִּי וְֽתוֹרָתְךָ֥ חָנֵּֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:29
- Psalms 119:37Turn my eyes away from gazing at vanity but revive me in Your ways.
- Psalms 141:3Set a guard, Adonai, over my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
- Proverbs 30:8Keep falsehood and lies far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches, but feed me with my allotted bread,
- Isaiah 44:20He is feeding on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, so he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t what is in my right hand a fraud?”
- Jeremiah 16:19Adonai, my strength, my stronghold, my refuge in the day of affliction, to You will the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, futility and useless things.”
- Jonah 2:8As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.
- Ephesians 4:22With respect to your former lifestyle, you are to lay aside the old self corrupted by its deceitful desires,
- 1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
- 1 John 2:4The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
- Revelation 22:15Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Psalms 119:5Oh that my ways were steadfast to observe Your decrees!
- Jeremiah 31:33No longer will each teach his neighbor or each his brother, saying: ‘Know Adonai,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.” it is a declaration of Adonai. “For I will forgive their iniquity, their sin I will remember no more.”
- Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Adonai. I will put My Torah into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write it. And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29The way of lying - The propensity to falsity and prevarication, whatsoever is contrary to truth. Remove me from its solicitations, and remove it from me. "Grant me thy law graciously;" give it to me as a rule of moral conduct; but give it to me graciously through the gospel, and then it will not be the letter that killeth, but will be sanctified to me, so as to become to me holy, just, and Good.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29Remove from me - Take it from me; cause it to depart; let me not be under its influence or power. The way of lying - Every false, deceitful, hypocritical way. We are not to suppose that the psalmist was addicted to lying, but that he felt he was, like all people, in danger of acting from false views, from wrong motives, or under the influence of delusion and deceit. It is a prayer that he might always be sincere and truthful. No man who knows his own…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-32Verses 25-32 While the souls of the children of this world cleave to the earth as their portion, the children of light are greatly burdened, because of the remains of carnal affections in their hearts. It is unspeakable comfort to a gracious soul, to think with what tenderness all its complaints are received by a gracious God. We can talk of the wonders of redeeming love, when we understand the way of God's precepts, and walk in that way. The penitent…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29path of deceit: Self-deception comes from sinful human nature (Jeremiah 17:9). It leads to foolishness. Access to God’s word is a privilege, not a right.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 28-3228-32. In order to adhere to His word, we must seek deliverance from temptations to sin as well as from despondency. enlarge--or, "expand" my heart--with gracious affections. HE. (Psa 119:33-40).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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