Psalms 119:37

In 11 translations

BSB

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.Two MT manuscripts and DSS; most MT manuscripts in Your way

KJV

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.Turn…: Heb. Make to pass

WEB

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

ASV

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

LSV

Remove my eyes from seeing vanity, || Quicken me in Your way.

YLT

Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

DBY

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; quicken me in thy way.

DRC118:37

Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.

GNV

Turne away mine eies from regarding vanitie, and quicken me in thy way.

JPS

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken me in Thy ways.

LXXE118:37

Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: quicken thou me in thy way.

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WLC

הַעֲבֵ֣ר עֵ֭ינַי מֵרְא֣וֹת שָׁ֑וְא בִּדְרָכֶ֥ךָ חַיֵּֽנִי׃

LXX-Br118:37

Ἀπόστρεψον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου τοῦ μὴ ἰδεῖν ματαιότητα, ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ σου ζῆσόν με.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 John 2:16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
• Proverbs 4:25Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
• Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
• Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
• Numbers 15:39These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
• Matthew 5:28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
• Proverbs 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
• Psalms 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
• Psalms 71:20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
• 2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
• Psalms 119:25My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
• Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the…

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