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Psalm 119:103–107

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119:103Your words are sweeter

in my mouth than honey!134

119:104Your precepts give me discernment.

Therefore I hate all deceitful actions.135

ן (Nun)

119:105Your word136 is a lamp to walk by,

and a light to illumine my path.137

119:106I have vowed and solemnly sworn

to keep your just regulations.

119:107I am suffering terribly.

O Lord, revive me with your word!138

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Psalm 119:103: How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Footnotes

  1. 134 Heb “How smooth they are to my palate, your word, more than honey to my mouth.” A few medieval Hebrew , as well as several other ancient witnesses, read the plural “your words,” which can then be understood as the subject of the plural verb “they are smooth.”
  2. 135 Heb “every false path.”
  3. 136 Many medieval Hebrew read the plural (“words”).
  4. 137 Heb “[is] a lamp for my foot and a light for my path.”
  5. 138 Heb “according to your word.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

How sweet are your words to my taste,

sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Through your precepts I get understanding;

therefore I hate every false way.

Your word is a lamp to my feet

and a light to my path.

I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,

to keep your righteous rules.

I am severely afflicted;

give me life, O Lord, according to your word!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

How sweet are your words to my taste,

sweeter than honey to my mouth!

I gain understanding from your precepts;

therefore I hate every wrong path.

Your word is a lamp for my feet,

a light on my path.

I have taken an oath and confirmed it,

that I will follow your righteous laws.

I have suffered much;

preserve my life, Lord, according to your word.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

How sweet your word is to my taste—

sweeter than honey in my mouth.

I gain understanding from your precepts;

therefore I hate every false way.

Your word is a lamp for my feet

and a light on my path.

I have solemnly sworn

to keep your righteous judgments.

I am severely afflicted;

Lord, give me life according to your word.

NLTNew Living Translation

How sweet your words taste to me;

they are sweeter than honey.

Your commandments give me understanding;

no wonder I hate every false way of life.

Your word is a lamp to guide my feet

and a light for my path.

I’ve promised it once, and I’ll promise it again:

I will obey your righteous regulations.

I have suffered much, O Lord;

restore my life again as you promised.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

How smooth are your words to my palate,

more than honey in my mouth.

From your precepts I get understanding,

therefore I hate every false way.

Your word is a lamp to my feet

and a light to my path.

I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,

to heed your righteous ordinances.

I am very much afflicted;

O Yahweh, revive me according to your word.

KJV 1900King James Version

How sweet are thy words unto my taste!

Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Through thy precepts I get understanding:

Therefore I hate every false way.

NUN.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,

And a light unto my path.

I have sworn, and I will perform it,

That I will keep thy righteous judgments.

I am afflicted very much:

Quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.