KJV King James Version
CHETH. [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
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Psalm 119:57
CHETH. [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words.
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.
ASV American Standard Version
Jehovah is my portion: I have said that I would observe thy words.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Cheth. My portion is Jehovah; I have said—to keep Thy words,
Surrounding context — Psalm 119
54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
57 CHETH. [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
58 I intreated thy favour with [my] whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
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Lamentations 3:24The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.Psalm 16:5The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.Psalm 142:5I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my refuge [and] my portion in the land of the living.Jeremiah 10:16The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.Psalm 73:26My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.Psalm 119:115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.Joshua 24:24-27And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.Joshua 24:15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.Joshua 24:21And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.Joshua 24:18And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the LORD; for he [is] our God.Psalm 119:106I have sworn, and I will perform [it], that I will keep thy righteous judgments.Psalm 66:14Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.Deuteronomy 26:17-18Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:Nehemiah 10:29-39They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
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