Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Parallel translations
- KJV Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
- BSB If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
- NKJV Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction.
- NASB If Your Law had not been my delight, Then I would have perished in my misery.
- NLT If your instructions hadn’t sustained me with joy, I would have died in my misery.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Rom 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- Prov 6:22–23When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
- Ps 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
- Ps 94:18–19When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- Ps 119:77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
- Ps 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
- Ps 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
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