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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:27

In 11 translations

BSB
Make clear to me the way of Your precepts; then I will meditate on Your wonders.
KJV
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
WEB
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
ASV
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: So shall I meditate on thy wondrous works.
LSV
Cause me to understand the way of Your precepts, || And I meditate on Your wonders.
YLT
The way of Thy precepts cause me to understand, And I meditate in Thy wonders.
DBY
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts, and I will meditate upon thy wondrous works.
DRC118:27
Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.
GNV
Make me to vnderstand ye way of thy precepts, and I will meditate in thy wondrous workes.
JPS
Make me to understand the way of Thy precepts, that I may talk of Thy wondrous works.
LXXE118:27
Instruct me in the way of thine ordinances; and I will meditate on thy wondrous works.

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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
דֶּֽרֶךְ־פִּקּוּדֶ֥יךָ הֲבִינֵ֑נִי וְ֝אָשִׂ֗יחָה בְּנִפְלְאוֹתֶֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br118:27
Ὁδὸν δικαιωμάτων σου συνέτισόν με, καὶ ἀδολεσχήσω ἐν τοῖς θαυμασίοις 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 145:5–6the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works. They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.
  • Psalms 105:2Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.
  • Revelation 15:3and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
  • Psalms 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
  • Psalms 111:4He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.
  • Psalms 78:4We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
  • Acts 2:11both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
  • Exodus 13:14–15In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go,…
  • Joshua 4:6–7to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it…

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