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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:162

In 11 translations

BSB
I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.
KJV
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
WEB
I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.
ASV
I rejoice at thy word, As one that findeth great spoil.
LSV
I rejoice concerning Your saying, || As one finding abundant spoil.
YLT
I do rejoice concerning Thy saying, As one finding abundant spoil.
DBY
I have joy in thy *word, as one that findeth great spoil.
DRC118:162
I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil.
GNV
I reioyce at thy worde, as one that findeth a great spoyle.
JPS
I rejoice at Thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
LXXE118:162
I will exult because of thine oracles, as one that finds much spoil.

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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
שָׂ֣שׂ אָ֭נֹכִֽי עַל־אִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ כְּ֝מוֹצֵ֗א שָׁלָ֥ל רָֽב׃
LXX-Br118:162
Ἀγαλλιάσομαι ἐγὼ ἐπὶ τὰ λόγιά σου, ὡς ὁ εὑρίσκων σκῦλα πολλά.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
  • Psalms 119:72The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
  • Psalms 119:111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
  • 1 Samuel 30:16So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
  • Isaiah 9:3You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.
  • Proverbs 16:19It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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

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  • 118:162 in some Bibles
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