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29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
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He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: …
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-29)Here is, 1. David’s representation of his own griefs: My soul melteth for heaviness , which is to the same purport with Ps. 119:25; My soul cleaveth to the dust . Heaviness in the heart of man makes it to melt, to drop away like a candle that wastes. The penitent soul melts in sorrow for sin, and even the patient soul may melt in the sense of affliction, and it is then its interest to pour out its…
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