Psalms 119:59

KJV1611 – Modern English

I considered my ways and turned my feet to Your testimonies.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חִשַּׁ֥בְתִּי דְרָכָ֑י וָאָשִׁ֥יבָה רַ֝גְלַ֗י אֶל־עֵדֹתֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

ḥiššaḇtî ḏǝrāḵāy and-ʾāšîḇāh raḡlay to-ʿēḏōṯeykā

Grammar Details

• *ḥiššaḇtî*: piel perfect 1st person singular - I have considered
• *ḏǝrāḵāy*: masculine plural noun + 1st person singular suffix - my ways
• *wāʾāšîḇāh*: conjunction + hiphil imperfect cohortative 1st person singular - and I turned
• *raḡlay*: feminine dual noun + 1st person singular suffix - my feet
• *ʾel-ʿēḏōṯeykā*: preposition + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to your testimonies

Word Meanings

• *ḥiššaḇtî*: I have considered/thought about/pondered
• *ḏǝrāḵāy*: my ways/paths/conduct
• *ʾāšîḇāh*: I turned/returned/brought back

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I have considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  I thought{H2803} on my ways,{H1870} And turned{H7725} my feet{H7272} unto thy testimonies.{H5713}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  I thought{H2803}{(H8765)} on my ways{H1870}, and turned{H7725}{(H8686)} my feet{H7272} unto thy testimonies{H5713}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I call myne owne wayes to remembraunce, and turne my fete in to thy testimonies.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I haue considered my waies, and turned my feete into thy testimonies.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I haue considered mine owne wayes: and I haue turned my feete vnto thy testimonies.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I considered my ways, And turned my steps to your statutes.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I have reckoned my ways, And turn back my feet unto Thy testimonies.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I consider my actions and follow your rules.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:30-31 : 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and be obedient to his voice; 31 (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
• Jer 8:4-6 : 4 Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall and not rise? Shall he turn away and not return? 5 Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I listened and heard, but they did not speak rightly: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, like a horse charging into battle.
• Jer 31:18-19 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God. 19 Surely, after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
• Lam 3:40 : 40 Let us search and examine our ways and turn back to the LORD.
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
• Ezek 33:14-16 : 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, walks in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
• Ezek 33:19 : 19 But if the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.
• Joel 2:13 : 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
• Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
• Luke 15:17-20 : 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 And am no longer worthy to be called your son: make me like one of your hired servants. 20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?