KJV King James Version
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
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Psalm 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
WEB World English Bible
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
ASV American Standard Version
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!
Surrounding context — Psalm 119
173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
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Luke 19:10For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.Luke 15:4-7What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?John 10:16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.1 Peter 2:25For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.Matthew 15:24But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.Psalm 119:93I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.Ezekiel 34:6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek [after them].Matthew 18:12-13How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?Ezekiel 34:16I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.Song of Solomon 1:4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.Philippians 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.Psalm 119:61The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.Galatians 4:9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.Matthew 10:6But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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