Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
- BSB Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.
- NKJV Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; And let Your judgments help me.
- NASB Let my soul live that it may praise You, And let Your ordinances help me.
- NLT Let me live so I can praise you, and may your regulations help me.
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- Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Ps 51:14–15Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
- Isa 26:8–9Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
- Isa 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
- Ps 118:18–19Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
- 1 Cor 11:31–32For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
- Ps 30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
- Rom 8:28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
- Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
- Ps 9:13–14Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;
- 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
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