תהלים 17:5

Hebrew Modern Translation

תמך אשרי במעגלותיך בל נמוטו פעמי׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
אשרי במעגלותיך בל-נמוטו פעמי

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
תָּמֹ֣ךְ אֲ֭שֻׁרַי בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתֶ֑יךָ בַּל־נָמֹ֥וטּוּ פְעָמָֽי ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
תָּמֹךְ אֲשֻׁרַי בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתֶיךָ בַּל־נָמוֹטּוּ פְעָמָֽי ׃

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

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."