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118Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
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With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 118-120)Here is, I. God’s judgment on wicked people, on those that wander from his statutes , that take their measures from other rules and will not have God to reign over them. All departure from God’s statutes is certainly an error, and will prove a fatal one. These are the wicked of the earth ; they mind earthly things, lay up their treasures in the earth, live in pleasure on the earth, and are strange…
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