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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

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

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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