Psalms 119:176

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.

I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
KJV
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
WEB
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
ASV
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments. Psalm 120 A Song of Ascents.
DARBY
I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant; for I have not forgotten thy commandments.
BLB
I have gone astray, getting lost like a sheep; may You seek Your servant, for Your commandments I have not forgotten.
ÅB
Jeg har faret vill; oppsøk din tjener som en tapt sau! for jeg har ikke glemt dine bud.
[^1]: d.e. jeg tørker bort.
[^2]: himmelen og jorden.
OTB
Jeg har vandret omkring som et bortkommet får; søk din tjener,
For jeg glemmer ikke dine bud.
B1930
Jeg har faret vill; opsøk din tjener som et tapt får! for jeg har ikke glemt dine bud.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Luke 19:10

    For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

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  • Isaiah 53:6

    We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

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  • Luke 15:4–7

    “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

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  • John 10:16

    I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.

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  • 1 Peter 2:25

    For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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  • Matthew 15:24

    He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

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  • Ezekiel 34:6

    My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’

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  • Matthew 18:12–13

    What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?

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