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The LORD Has Heard My Voice

Psalms 116:9

In 11 translations

BSB
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
KJV
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
WEB
I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
ASV
I will walk before Jehovah In the land of the living.
LSV
I habitually walk before YHWH || In the lands of the living.
YLT
I walk habitually before Jehovah In the lands of the living.
DBY
I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.
DRC114:9
I will please the Lord in the land of the living.
GNV
I shall walke before the Lord in the lande of the liuing.
JPS
I shall walk before the LORD in the lands of the living.
LXXE114:9
I shall be well-pleasing before the Lord in the land of the living.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אֶ֭תְהַלֵּךְ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה בְּ֝אַרְצ֗וֹת הַֽחַיִּֽים׃
LXX-Br114:9
Εὐαρεστήσω ἐνώπιον Κυρίου ἐν χώρᾳ ζώντων.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 27:13Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
  • Luke 1:75in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.
  • 1 Kings 8:25Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard…
  • 1 Kings 2:4and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
  • 1 Kings 9:4And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
  • Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
  • Isaiah 53:8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
  • Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
  • Psalms 61:7May he sit enthroned in God’s presence forever; appoint Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness to guard him.

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 114:9 in some Bibles
  • 116:9 in most Bibles

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