Psalms 119:173
171 My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes.
172 My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.
May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
174 I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
175 Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
- KJV
- Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
- WEB
- Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
- ASV
- Let thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen thy precepts.
- DARBY
- Let thy hand be for my help; for I have chosen thy precepts.
- BLB
- Let Your hand be to help me, for Your precepts I have chosen.
- ÅB
- La din hånd være meg til hjelp! For jeg har utvalgt dine befalinger.
- OTB
- La din hånd være klar til å hjelpe meg,
For jeg har valgt dine påbud. - B1930
- La din hånd være mig til hjelp! For jeg har utvalgt dine befalinger.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 41:10–14
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
Read in contextJoshua 24:22
Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
Read in contextLuke 10:42
But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Read in contextPsalms 119:35
Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
Read in contextPsalms 37:24
Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
Read in contextPsalms 119:117
Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.
Read in contextJoshua 24:15
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
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