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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:171

In 11 translations

BSB
My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes.
KJV
My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
WEB
Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.
ASV
Let my lips utter praise; For thou teachest me thy statutes.
LSV
My lips utter praise, || For You teach me Your statutes.
YLT
My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes.
DBY
My lips shall pour forth praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
DRC118:171
My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications.
GNV
My lippes shall speake praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
JPS
Let my lips utter praise: because Thou teachest me Thy statutes.
LXXE118:171
Let my lips utter a hymn, when thou shalt have taught me thine ordinances.

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Original-language editions

WLC
תַּבַּ֣עְנָה שְׂפָתַ֣י תְּהִלָּ֑ה כִּ֖י תְלַמְּדֵ֣נִי חֻקֶּֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br118:171
Ἐξερεύξαιντο τὰ χείλη μου ὕμνον, ὅταν διδάξῃς με τὰ δικαιώματά σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
  • Psalms 71:23–24When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed. My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.
  • Psalms 119:7I will praise You with an upright heart when I learn Your righteous judgments.
  • Psalms 51:15O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
  • Psalms 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
  • Psalms 50:23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”

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

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  • 118:171 in some Bibles
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