Psalms 119:29

Webster's Bible (1833)

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

📖 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 Oh that my ways were steadfast To obey your statutes!
• Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
• Ps 119:104 : 104 Through your precepts, I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
• Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
• Ps 119:163 : 163 I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
• Ps 141:3-4 : 3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips. 4 Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.
• Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
• Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
• Jer 16:19 : 19 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
• Jer 31:33-34 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
• Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• Eph 4:22-25 : 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. 25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.
• Heb 8:10-11 : 10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, And they will be to me a people. 11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen,{TR reads "neighbor" instead of "fellow citizen"} Every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' For all will know me, From the least of them to the greatest of them.
• 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 1 John 2:4 : 4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.