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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:24

In 11 translations

BSB
Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
KJV
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.my counsellors: Heb. men of my counsel
WEB
Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
ASV
Thy testimonies also are my delight And my counsellors.
LSV
Your testimonies [are] also my delight, || The men of my counsel!
YLT
Thy testimonies also [are] my delight, The men of my counsel!
DBY
Thy testimonies also are my delight [and] my counsellors.
DRC118:24
For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.
GNV
Also thy testimonies are my delite, and my counsellers.
JPS
Yea, Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counsellors.
LXXE118:24
For thy testimonies are my meditation, and thine ordinances are my counsellors.

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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
גַּֽם־עֵ֭דֹתֶיךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָ֗י אַנְשֵׁ֥י עֲצָתִֽי׃
LXX-Br118:24
Καὶ γὰρ τὰ μαρτύριά σου μελέτη μου ἐστὶ, καὶ αἱ συμβουλίαι μου 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

  • 2 Timothy 3:15–17From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction,…
  • Psalms 119:92If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
  • Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
  • Psalms 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  • Joshua 1:8This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
  • Psalms 119:97–100Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation. Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me. I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.…
  • Psalms 19:11By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.
  • Proverbs 6:20–23My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck. When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch…
  • Psalms 119:77May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
  • Psalms 119:162I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.
  • Psalms 119:104–105I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
  • Psalms 119:143Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
  • Jeremiah 6:10To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
  • Deuteronomy 17:18–20When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his…
  • Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
  • Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

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