Psalms 119:57

In 11 translations

BSB

The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words.

KJV

Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

WEB

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

ASV

Jehovah is my portion: I have said that I would observe thy words.

LSV

[HETH] YHWH [is] my portion; I have said I would keep Your words,

YLT

[Cheth.] My portion [is] Jehovah; I have said — to keep Thy words,

DBY

CHETH. My portion, O Jehovah, I have said, is to keep thy words.

DRC118:57

HETH. O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep the law.

GNV

CHETH. O Lord, that art my portion, I haue determined to keepe thy wordes.

JPS

HETH. My portion is the LORD, I have said that I would observe Thy words.

LXXE118:57

Thou art my portion, O Lord: I said that I would keep thy law.

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WLC

חֶלְקִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אָמַ֗רְתִּי לִשְׁמֹ֥ר דְּבָרֶֽיךָ׃

LXX-Br118:57

Μερίς μου εἶ Κύριε, εἶπα τοῦ φυλάξασθαι τὸν νόμον σου.

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• Lamentations 3:24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
• Psalms 16:5The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.
• Psalms 142:5I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
• Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
• Jeremiah 10:16The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance— the LORD of Hosts is His name.
• Psalms 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
• Joshua 24:15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you…
• Joshua 24:24–27So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.” On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance. Joshua…
• Joshua 24:18And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”
• Joshua 24:21“No!” replied the people. “We will serve the LORD!”
• Deuteronomy 26:17–18Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice. And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His…
• Psalms 66:14the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.
• Psalms 119:106I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.
• Nehemiah 10:29–39hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD…

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