English Standard Version
Psalms 17:5
5My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Uphold my steps in Your paths, That my footsteps may not slip.
- New Living Translation (NLT)My steps have stayed on your path; I have not wavered from following you.
Context of Psalms 17:5
3You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress. 4With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent. My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped. 6I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my words. 7Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.
Read all of Psalms 17Psalms 17:5 word by word
תָּמֹ֣ךְ אֲ֭שֻׁרַי בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתֶ֑יךָ בַּל־נָמ֥וֹטּוּ פְעָמָֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 17:5
- Psalms 119:116Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!
- Psalms 121:3He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
- 1 Samuel 2:9"He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.
- Jeremiah 10:23I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
- Psalms 18:36You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.
- Psalms 38:16For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!"
- Psalms 94:18When I thought, "My foot slips," your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
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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