I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN
Parallel translations
- KJV My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
- BSB I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
- NKJV My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments, Which I love, And I will meditate on Your statutes. ז Zayin
- NASB And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments, Which I love; And I will meditate on Your statutes. Zayin
- NLT I honor and love your commands. I meditate on your decrees. Zayin
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 119:15I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
- Ps 1:2but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
- Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
- John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
- John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
- Jas 1:22–25But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
- Ezek 44:12Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.
- Ps 10:12Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
- Mic 5:9Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
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