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Psalms 17:5
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My steps are on your paths;my feet have not slipped.
My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
I have done what you told me; I have not failed.
I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.
My steps have held closely to Your paths; My feet have not staggered.
My steps have held to Your paths. My feet have not slipped.
My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feete doe not slide.
My steps have held fast to Your paths.My footsteps have not stumbled.
My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
I have followed you, without ever stumbling.
my steps hold steadily to your paths, my feet do not slip.
When thou holdest my goings in thy paths, my footsteps slip not.
Thou hast strengthened my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
I have always walked in your way and have never strayed from it.
I have held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.
My steps have kept in Your tracks so that my strides have not slipped.
Oh ordre thou my goynges in thy pathes, that my fote steppes slippe not.
My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.
I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.
My steps have held fast to Thy paths, my feet have not slipped.
Hold vp my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
O holde thou vp my goynges in thy pathes: that my footesteppes slyp not.
Direct my steps in thy paths, that my steps slip not.
My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.
Make thou perfit my goyngis in thi pathis; that my steppis be not moued.
My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
Uphold my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.
Uphold my steps in Your paths, That my footsteps may not slip.
My steps have stayed on your path; I have not wavered from following you.
My steps have followed Your paths. My feet have not turned from them.
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
Thou hast held fast my goings on to thy ways, My footsteps have not been shaken:
(16-5) Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.
My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.
To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.
My steps have held fast to Your paths. My feet have not slipped.
Contextual Overview
A prayer of David.
Lord , hear my prayer for justice. I am calling loudly to you. I am being honest in what I say, so please listen to my prayer. 2 You will make the right decision, because you can see the truth. 3 You were with me all night and looked deep into my heart. You questioned me and found that I did not say or do anything wrong. 4 Unlike most people, I have obeyed your commands, so I have never been like those who are cruel and evil. 5 I have followed your way. My feet never left your path. 6 Every time I call to you, God, you answer me. So listen to me now, and hear what I say. 7 Show your amazing kindness and rescue those who depend on you. Use your great power and protect them from their enemies.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hold: Psalms 119:116, Psalms 119:117, Psalms 119:133, Psalms 121:3, Psalms 121:7, 1 Samuel 2:9, Jeremiah 10:23
that: Psalms 18:36, Psalms 38:16, Psalms 94:18
slip not: Heb. be not moved
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:37 - feet Job 12:5 - ready Psalms 16:1 - Preserve Psalms 37:23 - steps Psalms 37:31 - steps Psalms 40:2 - established Psalms 51:12 - uphold Psalms 56:13 - wilt Psalms 73:2 - steps Psalms 140:4 - overthrow Proverbs 2:12 - deliver Matthew 26:33 - yet Luke 22:40 - Pray Romans 14:4 - he shall
Cross-References
If you do this, I will prepare an agreement between us. I will promise to make your people a great nation."
"This is my part of our agreement: I will make you the father of many nations.
God said to Abraham, "I will give Sarai, your wife, a new name. Her new name will be Sarah.
But I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son who Sarah will have. He will be born at this same time next year."
Then Abraham gathered together Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house. He also gathered all the slaves he had bought. Every man and boy in Abraham's house was gathered together, and they were all circumcised. Abraham circumcised them that day, just as God had told him to do.
Then the man said, "Your name will not be Jacob. Your name will now be Israel. I give you this name because you have fought with God and with men, and you have won."
These are the names of the men Moses sent to look at and study the land. (Moses called Hoshea son of Nun by another name. Moses called him Joshua.)
and sent word for Nathan the prophet to give Solomon the name Jedidiah. So Nathan did this for the Lord .
You are the Lord , the God who chose Abram. You led him from Ur in Babylonia. You changed his name to Abraham.
Your names will be like curses to my chosen servants." The Lord God will kill you, and then he will call his servants by a new name.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hold up my goings in thy paths,.... Which being spoken by David in his own person, and for himself, shows that he was conscious of his own weakness to keep himself in the ways of God, and to direct his steps therein; and that he was sensible of, the need he stood in of divine power to uphold and support him in them;
[that] my footsteps slip not; out of the paths of truth and duty, of faith and holiness; of which there is danger, should a man be left to himself, and destitute of divine direction and aid; see Psalms 73:2; and though Christ had no moral weakness in him, and was in no danger of falling into sin, or slipping out of the ways of God; yet these words may be applied to him in a good sense, as considered in human nature, and attended with the sinless infirmities of it, he being God's servant, whom he upheld, and of whom he gave his angels charge to keep him in all his ways, Isaiah 42:1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hold up my goings in thy paths - He had been enabled before this to keep himself from the ways of the violent by the word of God Psalms 17:4; he felt his dependence on God still to enable him, in the circumstances in which he was placed, and under the provocations to which he was exposed, to live a life of peace, and to keep himself from doing wrong. He, therefore, calls on God, and asks him to sustain him, and to keep him still in the right path. The verb used here is in the infinitive form, but used instead of the imperative. DeWette. - Prof. Alexander renders this less correctly, “My steps have laid hold of thy paths;” for he supposes that a prayer here “would be out of place.” But prayer can never be more appropriate than when a man realises that he owes the fact of his having been hitherto enabled to lead an upright life only to the “word” of God, and when provoked and injured by others he feels that he might be in danger of doing wrong. In such circumstances nothing can he more proper than to call upon God to keep us from sin.
That my footsteps slip not - Margin, as in Hebrew: “be not moved.” The idea is, “that I may be firm; that I may not yield to passion; that, provoked and wronged by others, I may not be allowed to depart from the course of life which I have been hitherto enabled to pursue.” No prayer could be more appropriate. When we feel and know that we have been wronged by others; when our lives have given no cause for such treatment as we receive at their hands; when they are still pursuing us, and injuring us in our reputation, our property, or our peace; when all the bad passions of our nature are liable to be aroused, prompting us to seek revenge, and to return evil for evil, then nothing can be more proper than for us to lift our hearts to God, entreating that he will keep us, and save us from falling into sin; that he will enable us to restrain our passions, and to subdue our resentments.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 17:5. Hold up my goings in thy paths — David walked in God's ways; but, without Divine assistance, he could not walk steadily, even in them. The words of God's lips had shown him the steps he was to take, and he implores the strength of God's grace to enable him to walk in those steps. He had been kept from the paths of the destroyer; but this was not sufficient; he must walk in God's paths-must spend his life in obedience to the Divine will. Negative holiness can save no man. "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire."
