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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:173

In 11 translations

BSB
May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
KJV
Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
WEB
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
ASV
Let thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen thy precepts.
LSV
Your hand is for a help to me, || For I have chosen Your commands.
YLT
Thy hand is for a help to me, For Thy commands I have chosen.
DBY
Let thy hand be for my help; for I have chosen thy precepts.
DRC118:173
Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
GNV
Let thine hand helpe me: for I haue chosen thy precepts.
JPS
Let Thy hand be ready to help me; for I have chosen Thy precepts.
LXXE118:173
Let thine hand be prompt to save me; for I have chosen thy commandments.

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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
תְּהִֽי־יָדְךָ֥ לְעָזְרֵ֑נִי כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ בָחָֽרְתִּי׃
LXX-Br118:173
Γενέσθω ἡ χείρ σου τοῦ σῶσαί με, ὅτι τὰς ἐντολάς σου ᾑρετισάμην.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 41:10–14Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness. Behold, all who rage against you will be…
  • Joshua 24:22Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.
  • Deuteronomy 30:19I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
  • Psalms 119:94I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
  • Psalms 119:117Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.
  • Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
  • Mark 9:24Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”
  • 2 Corinthians 12:9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
  • Psalms 119:111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
  • Luke 10:42But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
  • Joshua 24:15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you…
  • 1 Kings 3:11–12So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice— behold, I will do what you…
  • Psalms 119:35Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
  • Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.
  • Psalms 37:24Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
  • Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

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

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