My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
Parallel translations
- KJV Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
- BSB My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
- NKJV Uphold my steps in Your paths, That my footsteps may not slip.
- NASB My steps have held to Your paths. My feet have not slipped.
- NLT My steps have stayed on your path; I have not wavered from following you.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 44:18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
- Ps 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
- 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
- Ps 121:7Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
- Ps 18:36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
- Ps 38:16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
- Ps 121:3He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
- Ps 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- Jer 10:23Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
- Job 23:11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
- Ps 119:116–117Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
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