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Ps 119:133 King James Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Order my steps--Make firm, so that there be no halting (Psa 40:2).

any iniquity-- Psa 119:34 favors HENGSTENBERG, "any iniquitous man," any "oppressor." But the parallel first clause in this (Psa 119:33) favors English Version (Psa 19:13). His hope of deliverance from external oppression of man (Psa 119:34) is founded on his deliverance from the internal "dominion of iniquity," in answer to his prayer (Psa 119:33).
 
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33 HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
33 HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.