He renews my strength. He guides me along right paths, bringing honor to his name.
Parallel translations
- WEB He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- KJV He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- BSB He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
- NKJV He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
- NASB He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For the sake of His name.
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Quick answer
God restores the soul and leads in righteous paths for his name's sake. He renews and rightly guides his people for his own glory.
Overview
The Lord revives the weary soul and directs his sheep along right paths, doing so to uphold his own honor. God's guidance is not merely practical but moral, leading his people in righteousness. This restoration finds its fullest meaning in Christ, who renews the fallen and leads them in the way of holiness by his Spirit, all to the glory of his name.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 24
- Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
- Ps 31:3For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
- Ps 19:7Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
- Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
- Ps 143:8–10Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
- Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
- Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
- Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
- Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Prov 4:11I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.
- Ps 79:9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
- Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
- Ps 85:13Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
- Ps 85:4–7Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
- Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
- Ezek 20:14But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
- Hos 14:4–9“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
- Jer 32:37–42“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
- Jer 31:8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.
- Ps 34:3Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.
- Mic 7:8–9Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
- Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- Luke 22:31–32The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
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