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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:81

In 11 translations

BSB
My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
KJV
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
WEB
My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
ASV
My soul fainteth for thy salvation; But I hope in thy word.
LSV
[KAPH] My soul has been consumed for Your salvation, || I have hoped for Your word.
YLT
[Kaph.] Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.
DBY
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.
DRC118:81
CAPH. My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.
GNV
CAPH. My soule fainteth for thy saluation: yet I waite for thy worde.
JPS
CAPH. My soul pineth for Thy salvation; in Thy word do I hope.
LXXE118:81
My soul faints for thy salvation: I have hoped in thy words.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כָּלְתָ֣ה לִתְשׁוּעָתְךָ֣ נַפְשִׁ֑י לִדְבָרְךָ֥ יִחָֽלְתִּי׃
LXX-Br118:81
Ἐκλείπει εἰς τὸ σωτήριόν σου ἡ ψυχή μου, εἰς τοὺς λόγους σου ἐπήλπισα.

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 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  • Psalms 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
  • Psalms 119:114You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.
  • Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
  • Psalms 119:77May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
  • Revelation 3:15–16I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!
  • Song of Songs 5:8O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
  • Psalms 42:1–2As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
  • Psalms 119:74May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
  • Psalms 119:42Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.
  • Psalms 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.

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

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