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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:92

In 11 translations

BSB
If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
KJV
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
WEB
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
ASV
Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
LSV
Unless Your law [were] my delights, || Then had I perished in my affliction.
YLT
Unless Thy law [were] my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.
DBY
Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
DRC118:92
Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.
GNV
Except thy Lawe had bene my delite, I should now haue perished in mine affliction.
JPS
Unless Thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
LXXE118:92
Were it not that thy law is my meditation, then I should have perished in mine affliction.

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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
לוּלֵ֣י ת֭וֹרָתְךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָ֑י אָ֝֗ז אָבַ֥דְתִּי בְעָנְיִֽי׃
LXX-Br118:92
Εἰ μὴ ὅτι ὁ νόμος σου μελέτη μου ἐστὶ, τότε ἂν ἀπωλόμην ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει μου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Romans 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
  • Proverbs 6:22–23When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you. For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the…
  • Psalms 119:143Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
  • Psalms 94:18–19If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me. When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.
  • Psalms 119:77May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
  • Psalms 119:24Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
  • Psalms 27:13Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

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