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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:79

In 11 translations

BSB
May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies.
KJV
Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
WEB
Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes.
ASV
Let those that fear thee turn unto me; And they shall know thy testimonies.
LSV
Those fearing You turn back to me, || And those knowing Your testimonies.
YLT
Those fearing Thee turn back to me, And those knowing Thy testimonies.
DBY
Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that know thy testimonies.
DRC118:79
Let them that fear thee turn to me and they that know thy testimonies.
GNV
Let such as feare thee turne vnto me, and they that knowe thy testimonies.
JPS
Let those that fear Thee return unto me, and they that know Thy testimonies.
LXXE118:79
Let those that fear thee, and those that know thy testimonies, turn to me.

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  • Written (Ketiv): וְיָדְעוּ (“and they will know”). Read aloud (Qere): וְ֝יֹדְעֵ֗י (“and [those who] know”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • Leningrad Codex reads וְ֝יֹדְעֵ֗ו; read aloud (Qere) reads וְ֝יֹדְעֵ֗י (“and [those who] know”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC
יָשׁ֣וּבוּ לִ֣י יְרֵאֶ֑יךָ וידעו עֵדֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read aloud as (qere): וְ֝יֹדְעֵ֗י
LXX-Br118:79
Ἐπιστρεψάτωσάν με οἱ φοβούμενοί σε, καὶ οἱ γινώσκοντες τὰ μαρτύριά σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 119:74May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
  • Psalms 142:7Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
  • Psalms 119:63I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
  • Psalms 7:7Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

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

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 118:79 in some Bibles
  • 119:79 in most Bibles

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