Where is it in the Bible?
Psalm 119:105
105Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
In other translations
- ESV
- 105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
- NLT
- 105Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
- CSB
- 105Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.
- KJV
- 105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
The surrounding passage
Psalm 119:103–107, King James Version
103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
106I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
107I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
Context
Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible, with 176 verses. It is an acrostic poem: its 22 stanzas of eight verses each follow the Hebrew alphabet, and nearly every verse refers to God's word, law, or commands. This verse opens the stanza headed Nun, the fourteenth letter.
About the book of Psalms
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