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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:21

In 11 translations

BSB
You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
KJV
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
WEB
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
ASV
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, That do wander from thy commandments.
LSV
You have rebuked the cursed proud, || Who are erring from Your commands.
YLT
Thou hast rebuked the cursed proud, Who are erring from Thy commands.
DBY
Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, who wander from thy commandments.
DRC118:21
Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.
GNV
Thou hast destroied the proud: cursed are they that doe erre from thy commandements.
JPS
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, that do err from Thy commandments.
LXXE118:21
Thou hast rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside from 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
גָּ֭עַרְתָּ זֵדִ֣ים אֲרוּרִ֑ים הַ֝שֹּׁגִים מִמִּצְוֺתֶֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br118:21
Ἐπετίμησας ὑπερηφάνοις, ἐπικατάρατοι οἱ ἐκκλίνοντες ἀπὸ τῶν ἐντολῶν 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 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
  • 1 Peter 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
  • Psalms 119:118You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.
  • Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
  • Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
  • 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,
  • Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  • Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be…
  • Jeremiah 44:28–29Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs! This will be a sign to…
  • Psalms 119:110The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.
  • Isaiah 43:28So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
  • Deuteronomy 27:15–26‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his…
  • Jeremiah 44:9–11Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? To this day…
  • Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
  • Psalms 119:78May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
  • Isaiah 42:24Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.

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