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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:105

In 11 translations

BSB
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
KJV
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.lamp: or, candle
WEB
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
ASV
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.
LSV
[NUN] Your word [is] a lamp to my foot, || And a light to my path.
YLT
[Nun.] A lamp to my foot [is] Thy word, And a light to my path.
DBY
NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
DRC118:105
NUN. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.
GNV
NUN. Thy worde is a lanterne vnto my feete, and a light vnto my path.
JPS
NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
LXXE118:105
Thy law is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.

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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
נֵר־לְרַגְלִ֥י דְבָרֶ֑ךָ וְ֝א֗וֹר לִנְתִיבָתִֽי׃
LXX-Br118:105
Λύχνος τοῖς ποσί μου ὁ νόμος σου, καὶ φῶς ταῖς τρίβοις μου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
  • Psalms 43:3Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
  • Psalms 18:28For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
  • 2 Peter 1:19We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
  • Job 29:3when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
  • Psalms 19:8The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
  • Ephesians 5:13But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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