Psalms 119:176
174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
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
- 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 is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Read in contextLuke 15:4–7
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Read in contextJohn 10:16
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Read in context1 Peter 2:25
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Read in contextMatthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Read in contextEzekiel 34:6
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
Read in contextMatthew 18:12–13
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
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