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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:28

In 11 translations

BSB
My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word.
KJV
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.melteth: Heb. droppeth
WEB
My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.
ASV
My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
LSV
My soul has dropped from affliction, || Establish me according to Your word.
YLT
My soul hath dropped from affliction, Establish me according to Thy word.
DBY
My soul melteth for sadness: strengthen me according to thy word.
DRC118:28
My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.
GNV
My soule melteth for heauinesse: raise mee vp according vnto thy worde.
JPS
My soul melteth away for heaviness; sustain me according unto Thy word.
LXXE118:28
My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen thou me with thy words.

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Original-language editions

WLC
דָּלְפָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִתּוּגָ֑ה קַ֝יְּמֵ֗נִי כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br118:28
Ἐνύσταξεν ἡ ψυχή μου ἀπὸ ἀκηδίας, βεβαίωσόν με ἐν τοῖς λόγοις 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

  • Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
  • 1 Peter 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
  • Psalms 27:14Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
  • Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
  • Zechariah 10:12I will strengthen them in the LORD, and in His name they will walk,” declares the LORD.
  • Isaiah 40:29He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.
  • Psalms 29:11The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
  • Psalms 107:26They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.
  • Ephesians 3:16I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
  • Isaiah 40:31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
  • Psalms 20:2May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.
  • Joshua 2:11When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
  • Joshua 2:24“The LORD has surely delivered the entire land into our hands,” they said to Joshua. “Indeed, all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of us.”
  • Deuteronomy 33:25May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”

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

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