I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.
Parallel translations
- KJV I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
- BSB I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.
- NKJV I am small and despised, Yet I do not forget Your precepts.
- NASB I am small and despised, Yet I do not forget Your precepts.
- NLT I am insignificant and despised, but I don’t forget your commandments.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
- 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
- Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
- Luke 9:58Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
- Luke 6:20He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.
- Prov 15:16Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
- Ps 40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
- Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
- Prov 16:8Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
- Ps 119:109My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.
- Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
- Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
- Prov 19:1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
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