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Good News Translation
Psalms 18:21
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Because I kept the wayes of the Lord, and did not wickedly against my God.
For I have kept the ways of the Lordand have not turned from my God to wickedness.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
The Lord did this because I have obeyed him. I have not turned against my God.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord , and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
I do what you want and never turn to do evil.
Adonai rewarded me for my uprightness, he repaid me because my hands were clean.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.
For I haue kept the wayes of the Lord, and haue not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God,
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
I have followed the ways of the Lord ; I have not done evil by turning away from my God.
For I have obeyed the Lord 's commands; I have not rebelled against my God.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord ; I have not turned from my God to follow evil.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord. And I have not sinned by turning from my God.
For I had kept the ways of Yahweh, and not broken away from my God;
(17-22) Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not revolted against my God.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have not acted wickedly against my God.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord , and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Because I had kept the wayes of God: and had not wickedly shronke from my God.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord , and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
And the Lord schal yelde to me bi my riytfulnesse; and he schal yelde to me bi the clennesse of myn hondis.
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God.
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.
For I haue kepte the wayes of the LORDE, & haue not behaued myself wickedly agaynst my God.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord , And have not wickedly departed from my God.
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh,And have not wickedly departed from my God.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
For I: Psalms 17:4, Psalms 26:1, Psalms 119:10, Psalms 119:11, Acts 24:16, 1 Thessalonians 2:10
have not: Psalms 119:102, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 John 2:19
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 26:13 - I have not 1 Kings 18:13 - what I did 2 Chronicles 17:6 - in the ways 2 Chronicles 20:32 - departed not Isaiah 59:13 - departing Jeremiah 17:5 - whose Daniel 9:5 - departing Malachi 2:8 - ye are Hebrews 3:12 - in 2 Peter 2:2 - ways
Cross-References
Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which they had built,
Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the sacred trees of Mamre. As Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day,
If there are fifty innocent people in the city, will you destroy the whole city? Won't you spare it in order to save the fifty?
and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live.
For the Lord had commanded Moses to tell them, "You are a stubborn people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I would completely destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you."
Remember how the Lord your God led you on this long journey through the desert these past forty years, sending hardships to test you, so that he might know what you intended to do and whether you would obey his commands.
do not pay any attention to them. The Lord your God is using them to test you, to see if you love the Lord with all your heart.
"The Mighty One is God! He is the Lord ! The Mighty One is God! He is the Lord ! He knows why we did this, and we want you to know too! If we rebelled and did not keep faith with the Lord , do not let us live any longer!
There is no darkness dark enough to hide a sinner from God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For I have kept the ways of the Lord,.... Not those which the Lord himself walks in, his ways of providence, or of grace; though these are and should be taken notice of and observed by good men, as the word y used will bear to be rendered; but the ways which he has prescribed and directed men to walk in, the ways of his commandments, in which they should go; these were, in some measure, kept by David, who often, in the hundred nineteenth psalm speaks of his keeping the testimonies and statutes, and commandments of the Lord; as they are by good men, with some degree of pleasure, they take delight to walk in them; and with some degree of constancy, they keep walking in them, without turning to the right hand or the left, though solicited to it; but yet not perfectly, for they have many a slip and fall in them; wherefore this cannot be a reason of their being rewarded according to their righteousness: in strict justice, the words better agree with Christ, who kept the law of God perfectly, did his will completely; he came from heaven to do it; it was his meat and drink to accomplish it; and he always did the things which pleased his father, wherefore he rewarded him;
and have not wickedly departed from my God; which was, in some sense, true of David; not as by disbelieving the power and providence, the promises, truth, and faithfulness of God, and his covenant interest in him; which to do would have been a wicked departure from God; see Hebrews 3:12; nor by forsaking the house and worship of God; though he was driven from thence by wicked men, yet sore against his will, and which during his exile he frequently laments and complains of; nor by sinning wilfully and presumptuously, only through error, inadvertency, infirmity, and temptation: but when it is observed, how much unbelief, which is a partial departing from the living God, and how many there are that neglect private and public worship, and what a proneness there is to sin and wickedness, and how much there is of the will in sinful actions, in the best of men; it is right and best to understand this of Christ, who never was guilty of sin, nor committed any wickedness in departing from God in the least: as man, God was his God, and he always believed his interest in him, and claimed it even when he forsook him on the cross; nor did he quit his service, desert his cause, nor depart from the work and business he enjoined him, till it was finished.
y שמרתי "observaveram", Tigurine version, Vatablus; "observo", Junius Tremellius "observavi", Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For I have kept the ways of the Lord - I have obeyed his laws. I have not so violated the laws which God has given to regulate my conduct with my fellow-men as to deserve to be treated by them as a guilty man.
And have not wickedly departed from my God - “I have not been a sinner from my God;” an apostate; an open violator of his law. The treatment which I have received, though it would be justly rendered to an open violator of law, is not that which I have merited from the hand of man.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 18:21. I have kept the ways of the Lord — I was neither an infidel nor a profligate; I trusted in God, and carefully observed all the ordinances of his religion.
