Psalms 119:175
173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.
- KJV
- Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
- WEB
- Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.
- ASV
- Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; And let thine ordinances help me.
- DARBY
- Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
- BLB
- Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; and may Your judgments help me.
- ÅB
- La min sjel leve og love deg, og la dine dommer hjelpe meg!
- OTB
- La min sjel leve så den kan prise deg,
Og la dine dommer hjelpe meg. - B1930
- La min sjel leve og love dig, og la dine dommer hjelpe mig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Read in contextPsalms 51:14–15
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Read in contextIsaiah 26:8–9
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:19
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Read in contextPsalms 118:18–19
The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
Read in contextRomans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Read in contextPsalms 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Read in context1 Corinthians 11:31–32
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
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