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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:69

In 11 translations

BSB
Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
KJV
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
WEB
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
ASV
The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.
LSV
The proud have forged falsehood against me, || I keep Your precepts with the whole heart.
YLT
Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.
DBY
The proud have forged falsehood against me: I will observe thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
DRC118:69
The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.
GNV
The proud haue imagined a lie against me: but I wil keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.
JPS
The proud have forged a lie against me; but I with my whole heart will keep Thy precepts.
LXXE118:69
The injustice of the proud has been multiplied against me: but I will search out thy commandments with all my heart.

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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
טָפְל֬וּ עָלַ֣י שֶׁ֣קֶר זֵדִ֑ים אֲ֝נִ֗י בְּכָל־לֵ֤ב ׀ אֱצֹּ֬ר פִּקּוּדֶֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br118:69
Ἐπληθύνθη ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ἀδικία ὑπερηφάνων, ἐγὼ δὲ ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ μου ἐξερευνήσω τὰς ἐντολάς 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

  • Matthew 5:11–12Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the…
  • Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
  • Psalms 109:2–3For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues. They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
  • Psalms 119:157Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
  • Matthew 26:59–68Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death. But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward and…
  • Psalms 119:58I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.
  • Acts 24:5We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
  • Acts 24:13Nor can they prove to you any of their charges against me.
  • Psalms 119:51The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
  • Psalms 119:34Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
  • James 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
  • Jeremiah 43:2–3Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’ Rather, Baruch son of…
  • Psalms 35:11Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
  • Matthew 6:24No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

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

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