Psalms 119:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word.”
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BSBPD
“My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“My soul hath dropped from affliction, Establish me according to Thy word.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 119:28 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 33:25May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”
- Joshua 2:11When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
- Joshua 2:24“The LORD has surely delivered the entire land into our hands,” they said to Joshua. “Indeed, all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of us.”
- Psalms 20:2May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalms 27:14Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
- Psalms 29:11The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
- Psalms 107:26They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.
- Isaiah 40:29He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.
- Isaiah 40:31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
- Zechariah 10:12I will strengthen them in the LORD,and in His name they will walk,”declares the LORD.
- Ephesians 3:16I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
- Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
- 1 Peter 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
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