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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:18

In 11 translations

BSB
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
KJV
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.Open: Heb. Reveal
WEB
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
ASV
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.
LSV
Uncover my eyes, and I behold wonders out of Your law.
YLT
Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.
DBY
Open mine eyes, and I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law.
DRC118:18
Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.
GNV
Open mine eies, that I may see the wonders of thy Lawe.
JPS
Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.
LXXE118:18
Unveil thou mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things out of thy law.

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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
גַּל־עֵינַ֥י וְאַבִּ֑יטָה נִ֝פְלָא֗וֹת מִתּוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br118:18
Ἀποκάλυψον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου, καὶ κατανοήσω τὰ θαυμάσια ἐκ τοῦ νόμου 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

  • Ephesians 1:17–18that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him. I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope…
  • Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
  • Isaiah 32:3Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
  • Isaiah 35:5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
  • Matthew 13:13This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’
  • 2 Corinthians 4:4–6The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and…
  • Isaiah 29:18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
  • Matthew 16:17Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
  • John 9:39Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
  • Revelation 3:18I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:13–18We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away. But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the…
  • Isaiah 29:10–12For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers. And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed…
  • Psalms 119:96I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.
  • Hebrews 8:5The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on…
  • Hebrews 10:1For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
  • Hosea 8:12Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

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

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