I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
Parallel translations
- WEB I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
- KJV I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
- NKJV I thought about my ways, And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
- NASB I considered my ways And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
- NLT I pondered the direction of my life, and I turned to follow your laws.
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Quick answer
The psalmist considered his ways and turned his feet toward God's testimonies. It matters because honest self-examination leads to repentance and renewed obedience.
Overview
Reflecting on the direction of his life, the psalmist redirects his steps to follow God's testimonies. Thoughtful self-assessment produces a turning toward God's word. This pattern of considering one's ways and turning back is the heart of repentance, central to the gospel call to turn to Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Cor 13:5Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
- Ezek 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Lam 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
- 2 Cor 12:21I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
- Luke 15:17–20Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
- Hag 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Ezek 18:30Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
- Hag 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
- Ezek 33:14–16But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—
- Deut 4:30–31When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
- Jer 8:4–6So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
- Jer 31:18–19I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
- Ezek 33:19But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
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