Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
- KJV Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
- NKJV Our heart has not turned back, Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
- NASB Our heart has not turned back, And our steps have not deviated from Your way,
- NLT Our hearts have not deserted you. We have not strayed from your path.
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Quick answer
Their hearts have not turned back nor their steps strayed from God's path. It matters because it affirms steadfast loyalty in the midst of unexplained affliction.
Overview
The people declare that neither inwardly (heart) nor outwardly (steps) have they departed from God. This protestation of integrity sharpens the question of why they suffer. Such perseverance in faith despite hardship reflects the call of the gospel to remain faithful, sustained by the One who endured for us.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 119:51The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
- Ps 119:157Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
- Zeph 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
- Ps 78:57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
- Job 23:11–12My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
- Job 34:27because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.
- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- Ps 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
- Jer 11:10They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
- 1 Kgs 15:5For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
- Luke 17:32Remember Lot’s wife!
- 1 Th 2:10You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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