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133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
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Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. …
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 133)Here David prays for two great spiritual blessings, and is, in this verse, as earnest for the good work of God in him as, in the verse before, for the good-will of God towards him. He prays, 1. For direction in the paths of duty: “ Order my steps in thy word ; having led me into the right way, let every step I take in that way be under the guidance of thy grace.” We ought to walk by rule; all the…
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