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Psalms 17:5
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My steps are on your paths;my feet have not slipped.
My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
I have done what you told me; I have not failed.
I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.
My steps have held closely to Your paths; My feet have not staggered.
My steps have held to Your paths. My feet have not slipped.
My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feete doe not slide.
My steps have held fast to Your paths.My footsteps have not stumbled.
My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
I have followed you, without ever stumbling.
my steps hold steadily to your paths, my feet do not slip.
When thou holdest my goings in thy paths, my footsteps slip not.
I have followed your way. My feet never left your path.
Thou hast strengthened my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
I have always walked in your way and have never strayed from it.
I have held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.
My steps have kept in Your tracks so that my strides have not slipped.
Oh ordre thou my goynges in thy pathes, that my fote steppes slippe not.
My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.
I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.
My steps have held fast to Thy paths, my feet have not slipped.
Hold vp my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
O holde thou vp my goynges in thy pathes: that my footesteppes slyp not.
Direct my steps in thy paths, that my steps slip not.
My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.
Make thou perfit my goyngis in thi pathis; that my steppis be not moued.
My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
Uphold my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.
Uphold my steps in Your paths, That my footsteps may not slip.
My steps have stayed on your path; I have not wavered from following you.
My steps have followed Your paths. My feet have not turned from them.
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
Thou hast held fast my goings on to thy ways, My footsteps have not been shaken:
(16-5) Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.
My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.
To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.
My steps have held fast to Your paths. My feet have not slipped.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hold: Psalms 119:116, Psalms 119:117, Psalms 119:133, Psalms 121:3, Psalms 121:7, 1 Samuel 2:9, Jeremiah 10:23
that: Psalms 18:36, Psalms 38:16, Psalms 94:18
slip not: Heb. be not moved
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:37 - feet Job 12:5 - ready Psalms 16:1 - Preserve Psalms 37:23 - steps Psalms 37:31 - steps Psalms 40:2 - established Psalms 51:12 - uphold Psalms 56:13 - wilt Psalms 73:2 - steps Psalms 140:4 - overthrow Proverbs 2:12 - deliver Matthew 26:33 - yet Luke 22:40 - Pray Romans 14:4 - he shall
Cross-References
and I give My covenant between Me and you, and multiply you very exceedingly."
"I—behold, My covenant [is] with you, and you have become father of a multitude of nations;
And God says to Abraham, "Sarai your wife—you do not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [is] her name;
and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah does bear to you at this appointed time in the next year";
And Abraham takes his son Ishmael, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money—every male among the men of Abraham's house and circumcises the flesh of their foreskin, in this very same day, as God has spoken with him.
And He says, "Your name is no longer called Jacob, but Israel; for you have reigned with God and with men, and prevail."
These [are] the names of the men whom Moses has sent to spy out the land; and Moses calls Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.
and sends by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and calls his name Jedidiah, because of YHWH.
You [are] He, O YHWH God, || Who fixed on Abraham, || And brought him out from Ur of the Chaldeans, || And made his name Abraham,
And you have left your name || For an oath for My chosen ones, || And Lord YHWH has put you to death, || And He gives another name to His servants;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hold up my goings in thy paths,.... Which being spoken by David in his own person, and for himself, shows that he was conscious of his own weakness to keep himself in the ways of God, and to direct his steps therein; and that he was sensible of, the need he stood in of divine power to uphold and support him in them;
[that] my footsteps slip not; out of the paths of truth and duty, of faith and holiness; of which there is danger, should a man be left to himself, and destitute of divine direction and aid; see Psalms 73:2; and though Christ had no moral weakness in him, and was in no danger of falling into sin, or slipping out of the ways of God; yet these words may be applied to him in a good sense, as considered in human nature, and attended with the sinless infirmities of it, he being God's servant, whom he upheld, and of whom he gave his angels charge to keep him in all his ways, Isaiah 42:1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hold up my goings in thy paths - He had been enabled before this to keep himself from the ways of the violent by the word of God Psalms 17:4; he felt his dependence on God still to enable him, in the circumstances in which he was placed, and under the provocations to which he was exposed, to live a life of peace, and to keep himself from doing wrong. He, therefore, calls on God, and asks him to sustain him, and to keep him still in the right path. The verb used here is in the infinitive form, but used instead of the imperative. DeWette. - Prof. Alexander renders this less correctly, âMy steps have laid hold of thy paths;â for he supposes that a prayer here âwould be out of place.â But prayer can never be more appropriate than when a man realises that he owes the fact of his having been hitherto enabled to lead an upright life only to the âwordâ of God, and when provoked and injured by others he feels that he might be in danger of doing wrong. In such circumstances nothing can he more proper than to call upon God to keep us from sin.
That my footsteps slip not - Margin, as in Hebrew: âbe not moved.â The idea is, âthat I may be firm; that I may not yield to passion; that, provoked and wronged by others, I may not be allowed to depart from the course of life which I have been hitherto enabled to pursue.â No prayer could be more appropriate. When we feel and know that we have been wronged by others; when our lives have given no cause for such treatment as we receive at their hands; when they are still pursuing us, and injuring us in our reputation, our property, or our peace; when all the bad passions of our nature are liable to be aroused, prompting us to seek revenge, and to return evil for evil, then nothing can be more proper than for us to lift our hearts to God, entreating that he will keep us, and save us from falling into sin; that he will enable us to restrain our passions, and to subdue our resentments.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 17:5. Hold up my goings in thy paths — David walked in God's ways; but, without Divine assistance, he could not walk steadily, even in them. The words of God's lips had shown him the steps he was to take, and he implores the strength of God's grace to enable him to walk in those steps. He had been kept from the paths of the destroyer; but this was not sufficient; he must walk in God's paths-must spend his life in obedience to the Divine will. Negative holiness can save no man. "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire."
