Psalms 119:48

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“I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.”

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BSBPD

“I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“I will lift up my hands also unto thy commandments, which I have loved; And I will meditate on thy statutes. ז ZAYIN.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And I lift up my hands unto Thy commands, That I have loved, And I do meditate on Thy statutes!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 119:48 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 24:63Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.
  2. Psalms 1:2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
  3. Psalms 10:12Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
  4. Psalms 119:15I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
  5. Psalms 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
  6. Ezekiel 44:12Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord GOD.
  7. Micah 5:9Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.
  8. Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
  9. John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
  10. John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
  11. James 1:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

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