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Psalms 119:103

How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Affections;   Instruction;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Word;   Word of God;   The Topic Concordance - Understanding;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Affections, the;   Honey;   Scriptures, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Honey;   Judgments of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Honey;   Joy;   Pharisees;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Regeneration;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Honey;   Honey ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Testimony;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Scripture;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Honey;   Taste;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Honey;   Taste;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 28;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How sweet your word is to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth.
Hebrew Names Version
How sweet are your promises to my taste, More than honey to my mouth!
King James Version
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
English Standard Version
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
New Century Version
Your promises are sweet to me, sweeter than honey in my mouth!
New English Translation
Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey!
New American Standard Bible
How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
World English Bible
How sweet are your promises to my taste, More than honey to my mouth!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe sweete are thy promises vnto my mouth! yea, more then hony vnto my mouth.
Legacy Standard Bible
How sweet is Your word to my taste!Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Berean Standard Bible
How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey in my mouth.
Contemporary English Version
Your teachings are sweeter than honey.
Complete Jewish Bible
How sweet to my tongue is your promise, truly sweeter than honey in my mouth!
Darby Translation
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!
Easy-to-Read Version
Your words are so sweet to me, like the taste of honey!
George Lamsa Translation
How sweet are thy words to the taste! yea, sweeter than honey to the mouth!
Good News Translation
How sweet is the taste of your instructions— sweeter even than honey!
Lexham English Bible
How smooth are your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth.
Literal Translation
How sweet are Your Words to my palate! More than honey to my mouth!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O how swete are thy wordes vnto my throte? Yee more the hony vnto my mouth.
American Standard Version
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Bible in Basic English
How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How sweet are Thy words unto my palate! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
King James Version (1611)
How sweet are thy words vnto my taste! yea, sweeter then hony to my mouth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe sweete are thy wordes vnto my throte: truely [they be sweeter] then hony is to my mouth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How sweet are thine oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth!
English Revised Version
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thi spechis ben ful swete to my cheekis; aboue hony to my mouth.
Update Bible Version
How sweet are your words to my taste! [Yes, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
Webster's Bible Translation
How sweet are thy words to my taste! [yes, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
New King James Version
How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
New Living Translation
How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey.
New Life Bible
How sweet is Your Word to my taste! It is sweeter than honey to my mouth!
New Revised Standard
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How smooth to my palate is thy speech, More than honey, to my mouth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-103) How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my mouth.
Revised Standard Version
How sweet are thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Young's Literal Translation
How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Contextual Overview

103How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104From Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sweet: Psalms 19:10, Psalms 63:5, Job 23:12, Proverbs 3:17, Proverbs 8:11, Proverbs 24:13, Proverbs 24:14, Song of Solomon 1:2-4, Song of Solomon 5:1

taste: Heb. palate

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 8:12 - because Job 6:6 - taste Psalms 34:8 - taste Psalms 119:113 - thy law Proverbs 2:10 - General Proverbs 16:24 - an Proverbs 22:18 - it is Song of Solomon 5:16 - mouth Ezekiel 3:3 - it was Luke 18:30 - manifold more John 4:32 - I have Romans 12:2 - good Hebrews 5:14 - their 1 John 5:3 - and Revelation 10:10 - sweet

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How sweet are thy words unto my taste!.... Who had a spiritual one; and could discern perverse things, and could taste how good and gracious the Lord is: and so his words were sweet unto him; the doctrines of grace, the truths of the Gospel, were delightful and pleasant to him; like unadulterated milk, desirable by him: like good wine, that goes down sweetly; like good food, that is exceeding palatable; or like honey, and even sweeter than that, as follows. And that words "may be tasted [and] eaten", is not only agreeable to Scripture language, Jeremiah 15:16; but to classical writers g;

[yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth; not only had they the nourishing nature and the refreshing virtue of honey, but the sweetness of it; yea, exceeded it in sweetness; see Psalms 19:10.

g "Mea dicta devorato", Plauti Asinaria, Act. 3. Sc. 3. v. 59. "Edi sermonem tuum", ib. Aulularia, Act. 3. Sc. 6. v. 1. "Gustare ego ejus sermonem volo", ib. Mostellaria, Act. 5. Sc. 1. v. 15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How sweet are thy words unto my taste ... - Margin, as in Hebrew, “palate.” The reference is to the taste, perhaps because the sense of taste was supposed to reside in the palate. The Hebrew word “may” include also the whole of the inside of the mouth. The word rendered “sweet” does not occur elsewhere. It properly means “to be smooth,” and hence, is applied to kind or agreeable words. On the sentiment here, see the notes at Psalms 19:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:103. Sweeter than honey to my mouth! — What deep communion must this man have had with his Maker! These expressions show a soul filled with God. O Christians, how vastly superior are our privileges! and alas! how vastly inferior in general, are our consolations, our communion with God, and our heavenly-mindedness!


 
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