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Psalms 17:5
5No, I carefully follow your ways. I do not turn away from them.
Psalms 17:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
- New International Version (NIV)My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Uphold my steps in Your paths, That my footsteps may not slip.
Context of Psalms 17:5
3You look deep into my mind. You check my thoughts at night. When you test me, you find nothing that is wrong. I have decided that I will never tell any lies. 4I have watched people do bad things. But I have obeyed your commands. I have not joined with cruel people to do what they do. No, I carefully follow your ways. I do not turn away from them. 6I pray to you, God, because you will answer me. Please listen to me when I pray to you. 7Do great things that show your faithful love! You have the power to keep people safe from their enemies. You help them when they trust you for help.
Read all of Psalms 17Psalms 17:5 word by word
תָּמֹ֣ךְ אֲ֭שֻׁרַי בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתֶ֑יךָ בַּל־נָמ֥וֹטּוּ פְעָמָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 17:5
- Psalms 119:116Help me to be strong, Lord, as your word promises. Do not let me be ashamed because of my hope.
- Psalms 121:3He will take care of you, so that you do not fall. The one who keeps you safe will not sleep.
- 1 Samuel 2:9He takes care of his faithful people. But he puts wicked people in a dark place where they can do nothing. It is not a person's own strength that makes him great.
- Jeremiah 10:23Lord, I know that nobody controls their own life. Nobody can decide what will happen to them.
- Psalms 18:36You have helped me to move safely, so that my feet do not slip.
- Psalms 38:16I have prayed that my enemies will not laugh at me. If I slip and fall down, they will be very happy!
- Psalms 94:18When I think, ‘I am falling down,’ your faithful love keeps me safe, Lord.
Commentaries on Psalms 17:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Hold 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…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Hold 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 Psalm 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-5The psalmist declares his innocence (Psalm 17:1) and commits himself to integrity by being open to God’s examination.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. May be read as an assertion "my steps or goings have held on to Thy paths."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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