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