O that my ways were directed ... - This indicates the desire of the pious heart. That desire—a prevailing, constant, uniform desire…

Directed ... —So Septuagint and Vulgate. The Hebrew is perhaps slightly different, established, or settled. (See Proverbs…

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! (Psalms 119:5)

The psalmist is driven to prayer. His admiration of t…

I wish that my ways may be directed. The original word כון, kun, is sometimes rendered as establish, and accordingly, it…

O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes! The psalmist, sensible of his own inability, as every good man is, to…

This psalm may be considered as the statement of a believer's experience. To the extent that our views, desires, and affections agree with what is …