God’s Word Translation
Psalms 17:5
5my steps have remained firmly in 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.
- 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 have probed my heart. You have confronted me at night. You have tested me like silver, but you found nothing wrong. I have determined that my mouth will not sin. 4I have avoided cruelty because of your word. In spite of what others have done, my steps have remained firmly in your paths. My feet have not slipped. 6I have called on you because you answer me, O God. Turn your ear toward me. Hear what I have to say. 7Reveal your miraculous deeds of mercy, O Savior of those who find refuge by your side from those who attack them.
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 God, as you promised, so that I may live. Do not turn my hope into disappointment.
- Psalms 121:3He will not let you fall. Your guardian will not fall asleep.
- 1 Samuel 2:9He safeguards the steps of his faithful ones, but wicked people are silenced in darkness because humans cannot succeed by their own strength.
- Jeremiah 10:23O Lord, I know that the way humans act is not under their control. Humans do not direct their steps as they walk.
- Psalms 18:36You make a wide path for me to walk on so that my feet do not slip.
- Psalms 38:16I said, “Do not let them gloat over me. When my foot slips, do not let them promote themselves at my expense.”
- Psalms 94:18When I said, “My feet are slipping,” your mercy, O Lord, continued to hold 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
Topics related to Psalms 17:5
In the dictionaries
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
God’s Word Translation — © 1995 God’s Word to the Nations Bible Society
Commentaries