Psalms 119:37
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.”
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BSBPD
“Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 119:37 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 15:39These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
- Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
- 2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
- Psalms 71:20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
- Psalms 119:25My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
- Psalms 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
- Proverbs 4:25Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
- Proverbs 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
- Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
- Matthew 5:28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- 1 John 2:16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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