Psalms 119:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Remove me from the path of deceit! Graciously give me your law!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דֶּֽרֶךְ־שֶׁ֭קֶר הָסֵ֣ר מִמֶּ֑נִּי וְֽתוֹרָתְךָ֥ חָנֵּֽנִי׃

Transliteration

dereḵ-šeqer hāsēr from-me and-tôrātəḵā ḥānnēnî

Grammar Details

• *dereḵ*-*šeqer*: masculine singular construct + masculine singular noun - way of falsehood
• *hāsēr*: Hiphil imperative masculine singular - remove
• from-me: preposition *min* + 1st person singular suffix - from me
• and-*tôrātəḵā*: conjunction *wə* + feminine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and your law
• *ḥānnēnî*: Qal imperative masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - be gracious to me

Word Meanings

• *dereḵ*: way/path/journey/manner
• *šeqer*: falsehood/lie/deception/disappointment
• *hāsēr*: remove/take away/turn aside
• *tôrātəḵā*: your law/instruction/teaching/direction
• *ḥānnēnî*: be gracious to me/show favor to me/have mercy on me

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:5 : 5 If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!
• Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!
• Ps 119:104 : 104 Your precepts give me discernment. Therefore I hate all deceitful actions.
• Ps 119:128 : 128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions.
• Ps 119:163 : 163 I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.
• Ps 141:3-4 : 3 O LORD, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips! 4 Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.
• Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread,
• Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
• Jer 16:19 : 19 Then I said,“LORD, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say,‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods– worthless idols that could not help them at all.
• Jer 31:33-34 : 33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD.“I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people. 34 “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the LORD.“For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”
• Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.
• Eph 4:22-25 : 22 You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires, 23 to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image– in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth. 25 Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
• Heb 8:10-11 : 10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. 11 “And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying,‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.
• 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
• 1 John 2:4 : 4 The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!