KJV King James Version
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
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Psalm 119:54
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
WEB World English Bible
Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.
ASV American Standard Version
Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Songs have been to me Thy statutes, In the house of my sojournings.
Surrounding context — Psalm 119
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined from thy law.
52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
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.
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Hebrews 11:13-16These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.Psalm 89:1Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.Psalm 10:1Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?
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