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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:43

In 11 translations

BSB
Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.
KJV
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
WEB
Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.
ASV
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; For I have hoped in thine ordinances.
LSV
And You do not utterly take away || The word of truth from my mouth, || Because I have hoped for Your judgment.
YLT
And Thou takest not utterly away From my mouth the word of truth, Because for Thy judgment I have hoped.
DBY
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; because I have hoped in thy judgments.
DRC118:43
And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words have I hoped exceedingly.
GNV
And take not the woorde of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for I waite for thy iudgements.
JPS
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I hope in Thine ordinances;
LXXE118:43
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְֽאַל־תַּצֵּ֬ל מִפִּ֣י דְבַר־אֱמֶ֣ת עַד־מְאֹ֑ד כִּ֖י לְמִשְׁפָּטֶ֣ךָ יִחָֽלְתִּי׃
LXX-Br118:43
Καὶ μὴ περιέλῃς ἐκ τοῦ στόματός μου λόγον ἀληθείας ἕως σφόδρα, ὅτι ἐπὶ τοῖς κρίμασί σου ἐπήλπισα.

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 9:4For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
  • 1 Peter 2:23When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
  • Ephesians 1:13And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
  • Psalms 71:17–18O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds. Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who…
  • Psalms 119:13With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
  • Psalms 119:175Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.
  • Psalms 119:52I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.
  • Psalms 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
  • James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
  • Psalms 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
  • Psalms 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
  • Psalms 7:6–9Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment. Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high. The LORD judges the peoples;…
  • Psalms 51:14–15Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
  • Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
  • Isaiah 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and…

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

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