Psalms 119:4

Psalms 119:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
• New International Version (NIV)You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You have commanded us To keep Your precepts diligently.

Context of Psalms 119:4

2Happy are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with a whole heart, 3who also do no injustice, but walk in His ways. You have commanded that Your precepts be kept diligently. 5Oh that my ways were steadfast to observe Your decrees! 6Then I would not be ashamed, when I consider all Your mitzvot.

Psalms 119:4 word by word

אַ֭תָּה צִוִּ֥יתָה פִקֻּדֶ֗יךָ לִשְׁמֹ֥ר מְאֹֽד׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thou hast commandedצָוָהtsâvâh · to commandH6680
• to keepשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: obeyH8104
• thy preceptsפִּקּוּדpiqqûd piqqûd · preceptH6490
• diligentlyמְאֹדme'ôd · muchH3966

Cross-references for Psalms 119:4

• Deuteronomy 4:1“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in and possess the land that Adonai the God of your fathers is giving you.
• Deuteronomy 5:29“So you must take care to do as Adonai your God has commanded you—do not turn aside to the right or to the left.
• Deuteronomy 6:17Diligently keep the mitzvot of Adonai your God, and His testimonies and His statutes that He has commanded you.
• Deuteronomy 11:13“Now if you listen obediently to My mitzvot that I am commanding you today—to love Adonai your God and to serve Him with all your heart and soul—
• Deuteronomy 28:1“Now if you listen obediently to the voice of Adonai your God, taking care to do all His mitzvot that I am commanding you today, Adonai your God will set you on high—above all the nations of the earth.
• Deuteronomy 30:16What I am commanding you today is to love Adonai your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His mitzvot, statutes and ordinances. Then you will live and multiply, and Adonai your God will bless you in the land you are going in to possess.
• Joshua 1:7Only be very strong, and resolute to observe diligently the Torah which Moses, My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so you may be successful wherever you go.
• Jeremiah 7:23but I explicitly commanded them: ‘Obey My voice and I will be your God to you and you will be My people. Walk in all the ways that I command you that it may go well with you.’
• Matthew 28:20teaching them to observe all I have commanded you. And remember! I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
• John 14:15“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
• Philippians 4:8Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise—dwell on these things.
• 1 John 5:3For this is the love of God—that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

Commentaries on Psalms 119:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Thy precepts diligently - מאד meod, "superlatively, to the uttermost." God has never given a commandment, the observance of which he knew to be impossible. And to whatsoever he has commanded he requires obedience; and his grace is sufficient for us. We must not trifle with God.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Thou hast commanded - All this is here traced to the command of God; to the fact that he has required it. It is not mere human prudence; it is not mere morality; it is not because it will be for our interest; it is because God requires it. This is the foundation of all true virtue; and until a man acts from this motive it cannot be said that he is in the proper sense a righteous man. To keep thy precepts diligently - Hebrew, “very much;” that is, to do it…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4To keep God’s commandments means to guard them by obeying them.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

Topics related to Psalms 119:4

• Instruction
• Law
• Obedience

In the dictionaries

• Break
• Comfort
• Delight
• Depart
• Establish
• Hallel
• Horror
• Incline
• Judgment
• Let

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