Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet
Psalms 119:38
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Establish Your word to Your servant, to produce reverence for You.
- KJV
- Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
- WEB
- Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.
- ASV
- Confirm unto thy servant thy word, Which is in order unto the fear of thee.
- LSV
- Establish Your saying to Your servant, || That [is] concerning Your fear.
- YLT
- Establish to Thy servant Thy saying, That [is] concerning Thy fear.
- DBY
- Establish thy *word unto thy servant, who is [devoted] to thy fear.
- DRC118:38
- Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.
- GNV
- Stablish thy promise to thy seruaunt, because he feareth thee.
- JPS
- Confirm Thy word unto Thy servant, which pertaineth unto the fear of Thee.
- LXXE118:38
- Confirm thine oracle to thy servant, that he may fear thee.
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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
- הָקֵ֣ם לְ֭עַבְדְּךָ אִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ אֲ֝שֶׁ֗ר לְיִרְאָתֶֽךָ׃
- LXX-Br118:38
- Στῆσον τῷ δούλῳ σου τὸ λόγιόν σου εἰς τὸν φόβον σου.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 32:39–41I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from…
- Psalms 147:11The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
- 2 Corinthians 1:20For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
- Psalms 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
- Psalms 103:11For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
- Psalms 103:13As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
- 2 Samuel 7:25–29And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised, so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over…
- Psalms 145:19He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
- Psalms 119:49Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 118:38 in some Bibles
- 119:38 in most Bibles