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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:70

In 11 translations

BSB
Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.Or fat
KJV
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
WEB
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
ASV
Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law.
LSV
Their heart has been thick as fat, || I have delighted in Your law.
YLT
Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I — in Thy law I have delighted.
DBY
Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law.
DRC118:70
Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law.
GNV
Their heart is fatte as grease: but my delite is in thy Lawe.
JPS
Their heart is gross like fat; but I delight in Thy law.
LXXE118:70
Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on thy law.

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Original-language editions

WLC
טָפַ֣שׁ כַּחֵ֣לֶב לִבָּ֑ם אֲ֝נִ֗י תּוֹרָתְךָ֥ שִֽׁעֲשָֽׁעְתִּי׃
LXX-Br118:70
Ἐτυρώθη ὡς γάλα ἡ καρδία αὐτῶν, ἐγὼ δὲ τὸν νόμον σου ἐμελέτησα.

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 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
  • Acts 28:27For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and…
  • Psalms 73:7From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
  • Isaiah 6:10Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
  • Psalms 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  • Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
  • Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
  • Psalms 119:35Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.

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

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