King James Version
Psalms 119:133 in the King James Version says “Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 119 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.”
Psalms 119:133 · KJV
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. as thou: Heb. according to the custom toward those, etc
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“my steps”
H6471a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
“Order”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and let not any iniquity”
H205strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
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