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King James Version

Psalms 119:47

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Obedience;   Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Love;   Word;   Word of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Command, Commandment;   Delight;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Waw;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Joy;   Pharisees;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Regeneration;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Testimony;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Scripture;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Delight;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I delight in your commands,which I love.
Hebrew Names Version
I will delight myself in your mitzvot, Because I love them.
English Standard Version
for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.
New Century Version
I enjoy obeying your commands, which I love.
New English Translation
I will find delight in your commands, which I love.
Amplified Bible
For I shall delight in Your commandments, Which I love.
New American Standard Bible
I will delight in Your commandments, Which I love.
World English Bible
I will delight myself in your commandments, Because I love them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And my delite shalbe in thy commaundements, which I haue loued.
Legacy Standard Bible
I shall delight in Your commandments,Which I love.
Berean Standard Bible
I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
Contemporary English Version
I love your commands! They bring me happiness.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will delight myself in your mitzvot, which I have loved.
Darby Translation
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved;
Easy-to-Read Version
What joy your commands give me! How I love them!
George Lamsa Translation
And I will meditate on thy commandments, which I have loved.
Good News Translation
I find pleasure in obeying your commands, because I love them.
Lexham English Bible
And I will take delight in your commands, which I love.
Literal Translation
And I will delight myself in Your Commandments, which I have loved.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My delite shalbe in thy commaundementes, which I loue.
American Standard Version
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, Which I have loved.
Bible in Basic English
And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved.
King James Version (1611)
And I will delight my selfe in thy commandements, which I haue loued.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And my delyght shalbe in thy commaundementes: which I haue loued.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I meditated on thy commandments, which I loved exceedingly.
English Revised Version
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y bithouyte in thin heestis; whiche Y louede.
Update Bible Version
And I will delight myself in your commandments, Which I have loved.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
New King James Version
And I will delight myself in Your commandments, Which I love.
New Living Translation
How I delight in your commands! How I love them!
New Life Bible
I will be glad in Your Law, which I love.
New Revised Standard
I find my delight in your commandments, because I love them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That I may find dear delight in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-47) I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.
Revised Standard Version
for I find my delight in thy commandments, which I love.
Young's Literal Translation
And I delight myself in Thy commands, That I have loved,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I shall delight in Your commandments, Which I love.

Contextual Overview

45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. 46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. 48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will delight: Psalms 119:16, Psalms 119:24, Psalms 112:1, John 4:34, Philippians 2:5, 1 Peter 2:21

which: Psalms 119:48, Psalms 119:97, Psalms 119:127, Psalms 119:140, Psalms 119:167, Psalms 119:174, Psalms 19:7-10, Job 23:11, Job 23:12, Romans 7:12, Romans 7:16, Romans 7:22

Reciprocal: Psalms 1:2 - But his Psalms 40:8 - I delight Psalms 119:77 - for thy Psalms 119:143 - yet thy Proverbs 3:1 - let Proverbs 3:17 - ways of Romans 12:2 - good 1 John 5:3 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will delight myself in thy commandments,.... In perusing and practising them;

which I have loved; a good man loves the law of God, and the commandments of Christ, and delights in them after the inward man.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I will delight myself ... - See the notes at Psalms 119:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:47. Thy commandments, which I have loved. — O shame to Christians who feel so little affection to the Gospel of Christ, when we see such cordial, conscientious, and inviolate attachment in a Jew to the laws and ordinances of Moses, that did not afford a thousandth part of the privileges!


 
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