“ Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. ”
Remove 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 p...
Remove from me the (d) way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. (d) Instruct me in your word, by which my mind may be purged from vanity and taught to obey your will.
CXIX. Praise of the Law. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginning with one of the twenty-two letters of the Heb. a...
29. Take away from me the way of falsehood. Knowing how prone the nature of man is to vanity and falsehood, he first asks the sanctification of his thoughts, lest, being entangled by the sna...
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. The way of lying - The propensity to falsity and prevarication, whatsoever is contrary to truth. Remove me from its solicitations, an...
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Remove from me the way of lying; and grant me thy law graciously. "The way of lying" is every unfaithfulness to the covenant...
The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the same Hebrew letter. The subject is practically the...
Way of lying. — Not of falsehood to men so much as insincerity and unfaithfulness towards God, the opposite of the truth and faithfulness of Psalms 119:30 . Grant me. — Rather, be gracious to...
Psalms 119:1-176 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of the Law; and the beauty and power of the psalm lie i...
a Prayer for Understanding Psalms 119:17-32 These verses are full of yearning and unsatisfied desire. The soul breaks for longing, cleaves to the dust, and melts for heaviness. We are reminded...
Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term, "The Law," should be understood in its widest sign...
DALETH. These verses compose the fourth part of this divine Psalm. Whether David, the supposed writer of it, thus complains in himself; or whether it means the Son of David, who in another part decl...
Remove from me the way of lying ,.... Not the sin of lying to men, and a course of it, which David was not addicted to; but a "false way", or "way of falsehood" b; as it may be rendered, and so the...
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Ver. 29. Remove from me the way of lying ] A sin that David, through diffidence, fell into frequently. See 1Sa 21:2; 1 Samuel 21:...
Remove from me the way of lying Hebrew, דרךְ שׁקר, dereech sheker , the way of falsehood or deceit , of guile or dissimulation. Let me neither practise it myself, nor countenance, nor be deceiv...
28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. 29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Here is, 1. David's representatio...
The way of lying; or, of falsehood ; either, 1. The practice of lying, and dissembling, and cheating, which is so rife in Saul's court, and in the courts of most princes; but, Lord, let it not b...
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ; Psalms 119:23 ; Psalms 119:46 ; Psalms 119:141...
Psalms 119:9 . Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. «Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?» A vital and solemn question. His way...
That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at the head of each distich; and the couplets are mos...
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me Thy law graciously. Lying I. The faculty of lying. Man has a faculty for misrepresenting facts and for deceiving men. The mere possession of this f...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses, every verse in each stanza beginning with its own...
Daleth. The Grace of Being Confirmed in the Truth.
Psalms 141:3 ; Psalms 141:4 ; 1 John 1:8 ; 1 John 2:4 ; Ephesians 4:22-25 ; Hebrews 8:10 ; Hebrews 8:11 ; Isaiah 44:20 ; Jeremiah 16:19 ; Jeremiah 31:33 ; Jeremiah 31:34 ; Jonah 2:8 ; Pr...
Grant me — Vouchsafe me an accurate knowledge of thy word, and let me govern myself by it in all things.