Psalms 5:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 27:11 : 11 Make your way clear to me, O Lord, guiding me by the right way, because of my haters.
  • Ps 25:4-5 : 4 Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways. 5 Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.
  • Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support. 6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
  • Ps 143:8-9 : 8 Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you. 9 O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you. 10 Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.
  • 2 Sam 12:14 : 14 But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
  • Prov 4:25 : 25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.
  • Matt 3:3 : 3 For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
  • Heb 12:13 : 13 And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.
  • Ps 31:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed; keep me safe in your righteousness.
  • Ps 54:5 : 5 Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.
  • Ps 59:10 : 10 The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.
  • Ps 86:11 : 11 Make your way clear to me, O Lord; I will go on my way in your faith: let my heart be glad in the fear of your name.
  • Ps 119:10 : 10 I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
  • Ps 119:64 : 64 The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy: give me knowledge of your rules.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 27:11-12
    2 verses
    85%

    11Make your way clear to me, O Lord, guiding me by the right way, because of my haters.

    12Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

  • Ps 143:8-11
    4 verses
    77%

    8Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.

    9O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you.

    10Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.

    11Give me life, O Lord, because of your name; in your righteousness take my soul out of trouble.

  • Ps 25:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

    5Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.

  • Ps 31:3
    76%

    3For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

  • Prov 8:20
    75%

    20I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

  • Ps 25:8
    74%

    8Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.

  • Ps 23:3
    74%

    3He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.

  • Ps 85:13
    74%

    13Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

  • Ps 139:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

    24See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.

  • Ps 7:8
    74%

    8The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

  • Ps 17:5
    74%

    5I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

  • Ps 35:24
    73%

    24Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

  • Ps 9:3
    73%

    3When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.

  • Ps 59:10
    73%

    10The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.

  • Ps 119:35
    73%

    35Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

  • Ps 43:3
    73%

    3O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

  • Ps 17:9
    73%

    9From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • Ps 5:7
    73%

    7But as for me, I will come into your house, in the full measure of your mercy; and in your fear I will give worship, turning my eyes to your holy Temple.

  • Ps 86:11
    73%

    11Make your way clear to me, O Lord; I will go on my way in your faith: let my heart be glad in the fear of your name.

  • Ps 27:8
    73%

    8When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

  • Ps 7:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

    6Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

  • Ps 119:133
    73%

    133Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.

  • Ps 13:4
    72%

    4And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

  • Ps 17:2
    72%

    2Be my judge; for your eyes see what is right.

  • Ps 23:5
    72%

    5You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.

  • Isa 26:7
    72%

    7The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

  • Ps 26:11
    72%

    11But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

  • Job 27:7
    72%

    7Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

  • Ps 3:7
    72%

    7Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

  • Jer 18:23
    72%

    23But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • Jer 20:12
    72%

    12But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.

  • Ps 119:5
    72%

    5If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!

  • Ps 54:5
    72%

    5Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

  • Ps 26:1
    71%

    1<Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

  • Ps 143:1
    71%

    1<A Psalm. Of David.> Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;

  • 2 Sam 22:33
    71%

    33God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

  • Ps 140:4
    71%

    4O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.

  • Jer 11:20
    71%

    20But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

  • Ps 35:1
    71%

    1<Of David.> O Lord, be on my side against those who are judging me; be at war with those who make war against me.

  • Ps 125:5
    71%

    5But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.

  • Ps 71:2
    71%

    2Keep me safe in your righteousness, and come to my help; give ear to my voice, and be my saviour.

  • Prov 8:8
    71%

    8All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them.

  • Ps 31:15
    71%

    15The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.