Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Parallel translations
- WEB Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
- BSB Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
- NKJV Remove from me the way of lying, And grant me Your law graciously.
- NASB Remove the false way from me, And graciously grant me Your Law.
- NLT Keep me from lying to myself; give me the privilege of knowing your instructions.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks to be kept from the way of falsehood and to be graciously granted God's law. It matters because deliverance from deceit and the gift of God's truth come by grace.
Overview
The psalmist prays both to be turned from the path of lying and to receive God's law as a gracious gift. He recognizes that truthful living is something God must grant. This dual prayer reflects the gospel, where God turns sinners from deceit and graciously gives His truth in Christ, who is the way and the truth.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Jn 2:4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
- Prov 30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
- 1 Jn 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- Ps 119:37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
- Heb 8:10–11For 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:
- Eph 4:22–25That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
- Rev 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
- Ps 119:5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
- Jonah 2:8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- Jer 16:19O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
- Ps 119:163I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
- Ps 141:3–4Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
- Ps 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
- Ps 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Isa 44:20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
- Jer 31:33–34But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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