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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:2

In 11 translations

BSB
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
KJV
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
WEB
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
ASV
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek him with the whole heart.
LSV
O the blessedness of those keeping His testimonies, || They seek Him with the whole heart.
YLT
O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.
DBY
Blessed are they that observe his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart;
DRC118:2
Blessed are they who search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.
GNV
Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies, and seeke him with their whole heart.
JPS
Happy are they that keep His testimonies, that seek Him with the whole heart.
LXXE118:2
Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart.

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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
אַ֭שְׁרֵי נֹצְרֵ֥י עֵדֹתָ֗יו בְּכָל־לֵ֥ב יִדְרְשֽׁוּהוּ׃
LXX-Br118:2
Μακάριοι οἱ ἐξερευνῶντες τὰ μαρτύρια αὐτοῦ, ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ ἐκζητήσουσιν αὐτόν.

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 29:13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
  • Deuteronomy 4:29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
  • John 14:23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
  • Psalms 25:10All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
  • Ezekiel 36:27And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
  • Deuteronomy 6:17You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.
  • Proverbs 23:26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
  • 1 Kings 2:3And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you…
  • 2 Chronicles 31:21He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
  • Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
  • 1 John 3:20Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
  • Psalms 105:45that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
  • Psalms 119:22Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.
  • Psalms 119:146I call to You; save me, that I may keep Your testimonies.

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

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