Psalms 17:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 17:5

Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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YLT

To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.

ASV

My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.

WEB

My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

DBT

When thou holdest my goings in thy paths, my footsteps slip not.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

25 verses on the floor

Jeremiah 10:23
O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Psalms 119:133
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Psalms 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
Psalms 44:18
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Psalms 51:12
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

): " Hold up my going in thy paths. Lord, I have, by thy grace, kept myself from the paths of the destroyer; by the same grace let me be kept in thy paths; let me not only be restrained from doing that which is evil, but quickened to abound always in that which is good.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 17:5PSA 121:7 2TI 4:18
PSA 17:5PSA 121:7 PSA 91:9-12
PSA 17:5PSA 121:7 PSA 41:2
PSA 17:51SA 2:9 PSA 121:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 17:5PSA 121:7 PRO 12:21
PSA 17:5PSA 121:7 PSA 145:20
PSA 17:5PSA 119:133 PSA 19:13
PSA 17:5PSA 119:133 PSA 119:116

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