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).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 118:122 in some Bibles
- 119:122 in most Bibles