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King James Version

Psalms 119:5

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Law;   Obedience;   The Topic Concordance - Praise;   Shame;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   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 - Acrostic;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Oh, that my actions would consistently reflect your decrees!
English Revised Version
Oh that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!
Update Bible Version
Oh that my ways were established To observe your statutes!
New Century Version
I wish I were more loyal in obeying your demands.
New English Translation
If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!
Webster's Bible Translation
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
World English Bible
Oh that my ways were steadfast To obey your statutes!
Amplified Bible
Oh, that my ways may be established To observe and keep Your statutes [obediently accepting and honoring them]!
English Standard Version
Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I wolde that my weies be dressid; to kepe thi iustifiyngis.
Berean Standard Bible
Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
Contemporary English Version
I don't ever want to stray from your laws.
American Standard Version
Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes!
Bible in Basic English
If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
Complete Jewish Bible
May my ways be steady in observing your laws.
Darby Translation
Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Easy-to-Read Version
How I wish I could be more faithful in obeying your laws!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Oh that my ways were directed to observe Thy statutes!
King James Version (1611)
O that my wayes were directed to keepe thy statutes!
New Life Bible
O, that my ways may be always in keeping with Your Law!
New Revised Standard
O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Oh that my waies were directed to keepe thy statutes!
George Lamsa Translation
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Good News Translation
How I hope that I shall be faithful in keeping your instructions!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Oh would that my ways might be settled! that I might keep thy statutes.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-5) O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.
Revised Standard Version
O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wishe that my wayes were directed: for to kepe thy statutes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O that my ways were directed to keep thine ordinances.
Christian Standard Bible®
If only my ways were committedto keeping your statutes!
Hebrew Names Version
Oh that my ways were steadfast To obey your statutes!
Lexham English Bible
Oh that my ways were steadfast, to keep your statutes!
Literal Translation
O that my ways were fixed to keep Your Statutes!
Young's Literal Translation
O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O that my wayes were stablished to kepe thy statutes.
New American Standard Bible
Oh that my ways may be established To keep Your statutes!
New King James Version
Oh, that my ways were directed To keep Your statutes!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Oh that my ways may be established To keep Your statutes!
Legacy Standard Bible
Oh may my ways be establishedTo keep Your statutes!

Contextual Overview

4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 119:32, Psalms 119:36, Psalms 119:44, Psalms 119:45, Psalms 119:131, Psalms 119:159, Psalms 119:173, Psalms 51:10, Jeremiah 31:33, Romans 7:22-24, 2 Thessalonians 3:5, Hebrews 13:21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:45 - statutes Nehemiah 1:7 - the commandments Psalms 10:2 - The wicked Psalms 119:29 - grant me Psalms 119:40 - I have Psalms 143:10 - Teach Proverbs 11:23 - desire Proverbs 14:8 - wisdom Ezekiel 11:20 - they may Matthew 26:41 - the spirit Romans 7:18 - for to will Galatians 5:17 - the flesh Philippians 3:12 - I had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!] The psalmist, sensible of his own inability, as every good man is, to keep the commands of God, prays for grace, direction, and assistance in it; that the ways of his mind, his thoughts, affections, and inclinations, might be directed to an observance of the divine precepts; knowing he could not command his thoughts, raise his affections, dispose his mind, and incline his heart thereunto; and finding a backwardness to religious exercises and spiritual duties, and that the ways and actions of his life might be guided to the same; being sensible he could not take one step aright without God and Christ; that the way of man is not in himself, and that it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps; that a good man's steps are ordered by the Lord, and he directs his paths: besides the direction of the word, there is need of the Spirit and grace of God, to cause a person to walk in his statutes, and to keep his judgments, and do them; see Jeremiah 10:23.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O that my ways were directed ... - Indicating the desire of the pious heart. That desire - a prevailing, constant, uniform desire - is to keep the law of God. It is the aim of the life; it is the supreme purpose of the soul; it is the ruling wish of the man, thus to keep the law of God. He in whose bosom this is not the constant wish cannot be a pious man. The Hebrew particle used here, and rendered “O that,” is a particle denoting a wish, or an earnest desire. The word “ways” denotes the course of life. The whole is expressive of an earnest desire to live in accordance with the law of God. It implies also a sense of dependence on God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:5. O that my ways were directed — "I wish that my way may be confirmed to keep thy statutes." Without thee I can do nothing; my soul is unstable and fickle; and it will continue weak and uncertain till thou strengthen and establish it.


 
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