Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Parallel translations
- WEB Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
- BSB Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
- 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 proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
- Ps 119:157Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
- Zeph 1:6And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
- Ps 78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
- Job 23:11–12My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
- Job 34:27Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- Ps 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
- Jer 11:10They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
- 1 Kgs 15:5Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
- Luke 17:32Remember Lot’s wife.
- 1 Th 2:10Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
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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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