| Psalm 119:5 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Oh that my ways may be established To keep Your statutes! (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | I pray that my ways may become firmly established so that I can obey your laws.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! |
| ASV: | Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes! |
| BBE: | If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules! |
| DBY: | Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! |
| ERV: | Oh that my ways were established to observe thy statutes! |
| JPS: | Oh that my ways were directed to observe Thy statutes! |
| WBS: | O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! |
| WEB: | Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes! |
| YLT: | O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes, |
| Psalm 119:5 Cross References |
| XREF: | Deuteronomy 12:1 "These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth.
2 Chronicles 7:17 "As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances,
Psalm 40:2 He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
Proverbs 4:26 Watch the path of your feet And all your ways will be established. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 119:5 {c} O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
(c) David acknowledges his imperfection, desiring God to reform it, that his life may be conformable to God's word. |
| MHC: | 119:1-8 This psalm may be considered as the statement of a believer's experience. As far as our views, desires, and affections agree with what is here expressed, they come from the influences of the Holy Spirit, and no further. The pardoning mercy of God in Christ, is the only source of a sinner's happiness. And those are most happy, who are preserved most free from the defilement of sin, who simply believe God's testimonies, and depend on his promises. If the heart be divided between him and the world, it is evil. But the saints carefully avoid all sin; they are conscious of much evil that clogs them in the ways of God, but not of that wickedness which draws them out of those ways. The tempter would make men think they are at them out of those ways. The tempter would make men think they are at liberty to follow the word of God or not, as they please. But the desire and prayer of a good man agree with the will and command of God. If a man expects by obedience in one thing to purchase indulgence for disobedience in others, his hypocrisy will be detected; if he is not ashamed in this world, everlasting shame will be his portion. The psalmist coveted to learn the laws of God, to give God the glory. And believers see that if God forsakes them, the temper will be too hard for them. |
| CONC: | Decrees Directed Established Keeping O Obey Obeying Observe Oh Ordered Prepared Rules Statutes Steadfast |
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