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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:42

In 11 translations

BSB
Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.
KJV
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.So…: or, So shall I answer him that reproveth me in a thing
WEB
So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.
ASV
So shall I have an answer for him that reproacheth me; For I trust in thy word.
LSV
And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, || For I have trusted in Your word.
YLT
And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, For I have trusted in Thy word.
DBY
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me; for I confide in thy word.
DRC118:42
So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words.
GNV
So shall I make answere vnto my blasphemers: for I trust in thy woorde.
JPS
That I may have an answer for him that taunteth me; for I trust in Thy word.
LXXE118:42
And so I shall render an answer to them that reproach me: for I have trusted in thy words.

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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
וְאֶֽעֱנֶ֣ה חֹרְפִ֣י דָבָ֑ר כִּֽי־בָ֝טַחְתִּי בִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br118:42
Καὶ ἀποκριθήσομαι τοῖς ὀνειδίζουσί μοι λόγον, ὅτι ἤλπισα ἐπὶ 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

  • Acts 27:25So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.
  • Proverbs 27:11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.
  • Matthew 27:63“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
  • Psalms 119:49Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
  • Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
  • Psalms 119:74May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
  • Psalms 56:10–11In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
  • 2 Samuel 16:7–8And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed! The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered…
  • Psalms 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
  • Matthew 27:40–43and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!” In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked…
  • 1 Chronicles 28:3–6but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.’ Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever.…
  • 2 Samuel 19:18–20and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and…
  • Psalms 56:4In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
  • Psalms 89:19–37You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people. I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him. My hand…
  • Psalms 71:10–11For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire, saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
  • Psalms 3:2Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah

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