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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:122

In 11 translations

BSB
Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.
KJV
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
WEB
Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
ASV
Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.
LSV
Make Your servant sure for good, || Do not let the proud oppress me.
YLT
Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.
DBY
Be surety for thy servant for good; let not the proud oppress me.
DRC118:122
Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.
GNV
Answere for thy seruant in that, which is good, and let not the proude oppresse me.
JPS
Be surety for Thy servant for good; let not the proud oppress me.
LXXE118:122
Receive thy servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely.

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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
עֲרֹ֣ב עַבְדְּךָ֣ לְט֑וֹב אַֽל־יַעַשְׁקֻ֥נִי זֵדִֽים׃
LXX-Br118:122
Ἔνδεξαι τὸν δοῦλόν σου εἰς ἀγαθὸν, μὴ συκοφαντησάτωσάν με ὑπερήφανοι.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Hebrews 7:22Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
  • Psalms 119:21You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
  • Proverbs 22:26–27Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
  • Job 17:3Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
  • Isaiah 38:14I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
  • Genesis 43:9I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.
  • Philemon 1:18–19But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account. I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.
  • Psalms 36:11Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

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

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  • 118:122 in some Bibles
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