Virtuous Solicitude
A. Gerard, D. D. Psalm 119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes! A solicitude to perform our duty, to practise holiness at all times, and to make a constant progress in it, is an essential ingredient in a virtuous temper, a necessary qualification of our obedience, and a powerful means of our becoming active and steadfast in it. It implies — 1. A lively sense of the supreme importance of holiness. 2. A settled love of goodness, and hatred of iniquity. 3. A vigorous, constant, and prevailing desire to keep God's statutes. 4. A firm resolution to keep them. 5. A prevailing bias of the whole soul towards virtuous practice. 6. Fervent desire of God's assistance in the practice of holiness. (A. Gerard, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! WEB: Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!