Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMED
Parallel translations
- KJV Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
- BSB Revive me according to Your loving devotion, that I may obey the testimony of Your mouth.
- NKJV Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth. ל Lamed
- NASB Revive me according to Your faithfulness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth. Lamedh
- NLT In your unfailing love, spare my life; then I can continue to obey your laws. Lamedh
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Ps 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
- Ps 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
- Ps 119:2Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
- Ps 119:159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
- Ps 119:146I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
- Ps 78:5For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
- Ps 132:12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
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