Psalm 119:176
New International Version
I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.

New Living Translation
I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come and find me, for I have not forgotten your commands.

English Standard Version
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Berean Standard Bible
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

King James Bible
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

New King James Version
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.

New American Standard Bible
I have wandered about like a lost sheep; search for Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.

NASB 1995
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.

NASB 1977
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant, For I do not forget Thy commandments.

Legacy Standard Bible
I have wandered off like a lost sheep; search for Your slave, For I have not forgotten Your commandments.

Amplified Bible
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments.

Christian Standard Bible
I wander like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I wander like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commands.

American Standard Version
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your Servant, because I have not forgotten your commandments.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I have not forgotten thy commandments.

Contemporary English Version
I am your servant, but I have wandered away like a lost sheep. Please come after me, because I have not forgotten your teachings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.

English Revised Version
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I have wandered away like a lost lamb. Search for me, because I have never forgotten your commandments.

Good News Translation
I wander about like a lost sheep; so come and look for me, your servant, because I have not neglected your laws.

International Standard Version
I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come find your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant; For I have not forgotten Thy commandments.

Literal Standard Version
I wandered as a lost sheep, [so] seek Your servant, | For I have not forgotten Your precepts!

Majority Standard Bible
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

New American Bible
I have wandered like a lost sheep; seek out your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

NET Bible
I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

New Revised Standard Version
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek out your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

New Heart English Bible
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

World English Bible
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

Young's Literal Translation
I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
175Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me. 176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

Cross References
Matthew 18:12
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?

Luke 15:4
"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Psalm 119:16
I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

Isaiah 53:6
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

Jeremiah 50:6
My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

Daniel 9:5
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.


Treasury of Scripture

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.

gone astray

Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Ezekiel 34:6,16
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them

Matthew 10:6
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

seek

Song of Solomon 1:4
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

Jeremiah 31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

Luke 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

for I do

Psalm 119:61,93
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law…

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














(176) I have gone astray like a lost sheep.--It would be in accordance with a true religious character that even at the end of a long protestation of obedience to the Divine law the psalmist should confess his weakness and sin. But while this may be a legitimate application of the close of this remarkable composition, and while the LXX. suggest a comparison with our Lord's parable by their rendering (comp. Matthew 18:11; Luke 19:10), this could hardly have been the intention of the words of this verse. More likely there is a reference to the condition of the community, for the word rendered "lost" (literally, perishing) is used in Isaiah 27:13 of the exiled Hebrews, and is rendered "outcasts;" the emphatic "I do not forget Thy commandments," which is the real close of the psalm, seems to make this view imperative.

Verse 176. - I have gone astray like a lost sheep (comp. ver. 67). Some see in this verse nothing but a reference to the outward circumstances of the psalmist's life. But this is certainly not the idea generally attached in Scripture to the image of the "lost sheep" (see Isaiah 53:6; Jeremiah 1:6; Luke 15:4-7; 1 Peter 2:25). Dean Johnson's exposition is probably correct, "I have wandered far from thee and from home, as a sheep lost and ready to perish in the wilderness." Seek thy servant. "Seek him, lest he be not able of himself to seek thee; and bring him again to thy fold." For I do not forget thy commandments. In my worst wanderings I have not fallen away wholly from thee. Thy Law has been ever in my thoughts. I have not "forgotten" it, but meditated on it and longed for it (vers. 15, 20, 40).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I have strayed
תָּעִ֗יתִי (tā·‘î·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 8582: To vacillate, reel, stray

like a lost
אֹ֭בֵד (’ō·ḇêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish

sheep;
כְּשֶׂ֣ה (kə·śeh)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7716: A member of a, flock, a sheep, goat

seek
בַּקֵּ֣שׁ (baq·qêš)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after

Your servant,
עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ (‘aḇ·de·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

for
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I have not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

forgotten
שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃ (šā·ḵā·ḥə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

Your commandments.
מִ֝צְוֺתֶ֗יךָ (miṣ·wō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4687: Commandment


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