Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
- KJV Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
- NKJV Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
- NASB ¶Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
- NLT Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
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Quick answer
God's word is a lamp to his feet and a light for his path, guiding his daily walk. Scripture illumines both the next step and the whole journey.
Overview
Opening the NUN stanza, the psalmist gives one of the Bible's most beloved images: God's word as light in a dark world. It shows both the immediate step (the lamp at the feet) and the larger way (the light on the path), directing the believer's life. This light shines fully in Christ, the Word made flesh and the light of the world (John 1:1-9; John 8:12).
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Theme
- The Word of God"Your word is a lamp to my feet."
Cross-references · 7
- Prov 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
- Ps 43:3Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
- Ps 18:28For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
- 2 Pet 1:19We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
- Job 29:3when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
- Ps 19:8The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
- Eph 5:13But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.
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