Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Thou hast set at nought all them that err from thy statutes; For their deceit is falsehood.
Thou hast set at nought all them that wander from thy statutes; for their deceit is falsehood.
Thou hast trodden down All going astray from Thy statutes, For falsehood is their deceit.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
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The verses this one reaches12
With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
“A farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, where it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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Psalms3
Lamentations1
2 Thessalonians1
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Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
leads to
We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set…
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
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Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
leads to
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.
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Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
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Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
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Voices3
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes,.... That wander from the way of the Lord's commandments; that deviate from his precepts, go astray constantly and wilfully; a people that err in their hearts, and with all their hearts.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
. Ver. 118. Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes. There is no holding up for them; they are thrown down and then trodden down, for they choose to go down into the wandering ways of sin. Sooner or later God will set his foot on those who turn their foot from his commands: it has always been so, and it always will be so to the end. If the salt has lost its savour, what is it fit for but to be trodden under foot?
But the disobedient and rebellious will be visited by God's wrath, which impresses the pious with wholesome fear and awe. their deceit is falsehood--that is, all their cunning deceit, wherewith they seek to entrap the godly, is in vain.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
