Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet
Psalms 119:85
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.
- KJV
- The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
- WEB
- The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
- ASV
- The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not according to thy law.
- LSV
- The proud have dug pits for me, || That [are] not according to Your law.
- YLT
- The proud have digged for me pits, That [are] not according to Thy law.
- DBY
- The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to thy law.
- DRC118:85
- The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.
- GNV
- The proude haue digged pittes for mee, which is not after thy Lawe.
- JPS
- The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to Thy law.
- LXXE118:85
- Transgressors told me idle tales; but not according to thy law, O Lord.
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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
- כָּֽרוּ־לִ֣י זֵדִ֣ים שִׁיח֑וֹת אֲ֝שֶׁ֗ר לֹ֣א כְתוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃
- LXX-Br118:85
- Διηγήσαντό μοι παράνομοι ἀδολεσχίας, ἀλλʼ οὐχ ὡς ὁ νόμος σου Κύριε.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
- Proverbs 16:27A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
- Jeremiah 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
- Psalms 7:15He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
- Psalms 119:78May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
- Psalms 36:11Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
- Jeremiah 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
- Psalms 58:1–2Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men? No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 118:85 in some Bibles
- 119:85 in most Bibles