Psalm 119:5 {118:5}
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O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.

Psalm 119:32,36,44,45,131,159,173 I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart. . . .

Psalm 51:10 Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Romans 7:22-24 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man: . . .

2 Thessalonians 3:6 And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.

Hebrews 13:21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
4Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently. 5O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.6Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:1
These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.

2 Chronicles 7:17
And as for thee, if thou walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and keep my justices and my judgments:

Psalm 37:23
With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall like well his way.

Psalm 40:2
And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

Psalm 119:33
Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it.

Proverbs 4:26
Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.

Proverbs 21:29
The wicked man impudently hardeneth his face: but he that is righteous, correcteth his way.

Lexicon
Oh, that
אַ֭חֲלַי (’a·ḥă·lay)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 305: O! would that!

my ways
דְרָכָ֗י (ḏə·rā·ḵāy)
Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

were committed
יִכֹּ֥נוּ (yik·kō·nū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3559: To be erect

to keeping
לִשְׁמֹ֥ר (liš·mōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

Your statutes!
חֻקֶּֽיךָ׃ (ḥuq·qe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2706: Something prescribed or owed, a statute


Additional Translations
Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!

Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes!

O that my ways were directed to keep thine ordinances.

Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Oh that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,
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