Your statutes are my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.
- KJV Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
- BSB Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
- NKJV Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
- NLT Your decrees have been the theme of my songs wherever I have lived.
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Quick answer
God's statutes have become the psalmist's songs during his earthly pilgrimage. It matters because Scripture is a source of joy and worship throughout the journey of life.
Overview
In the house of his sojourning, the psalmist makes God's statutes the theme of his songs. The word is not a burden but his music amid a pilgrim life. This singing devotion to God's word anticipates the worship of the redeemed, who sing the praises of God's truth fulfilled in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Heb 11:13–16These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- Gen 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
- Ps 10:1Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
- Ps 89:1A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
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