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Psalms 17:5

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.

Psalms 17:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 17:5

Theological / Devotional

Thy paths. In contrast to the “paths of the destroyer” (v. 4).

Slip not. Or, “be caused to totter.” When we find ourselves in a plight such as the psalmist’s, it is well to pray that we may be “stedfast, unmoveable” (1 Cor. 15:58). One cherished sin may set us sliding. Only pure principles can hold us.

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