Psalm 119:173
New International Version
May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

New Living Translation
Give me a helping hand, for I have chosen to follow your commandments.

English Standard Version
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Berean Standard Bible
May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

King James Bible
Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

New King James Version
Let Your hand become my help, For I have chosen Your precepts.

New American Standard Bible
Let Your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen Your precepts.

NASB 1995
Let Your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen Your precepts.

NASB 1977
Let Thy hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen Thy precepts.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let Your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen Your precepts.

Amplified Bible
Let Your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen Your precepts.

Christian Standard Bible
May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

American Standard Version
Let thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen thy precepts.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Your hand will help me because I have desired your commandments.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let thine hand be prompt to save me; for I have chosen thy commandments.

Contemporary English Version
Be ready to protect me because I have chosen to obey your laws.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

English Revised Version
Let thine hand be ready to help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Let your hand help me because I have chosen [to follow]your guiding principles.

Good News Translation
Always be ready to help me, because I follow your commands.

International Standard Version
May your hand stand ready to assist me, for I have chosen your precepts.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Let Thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen Thy precepts.

Literal Standard Version
Your hand is for a help to me, | For I have chosen Your commands.

Majority Standard Bible
May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

New American Bible
Keep your hand ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

NET Bible
May your hand help me, for I choose to obey your precepts.

New Revised Standard Version
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

New Heart English Bible
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let thy hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

World English Bible
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy hand is for a help to me, For Thy commands I have chosen.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
172My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous. 173May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts. 174I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.…

Cross References
Luke 10:42
But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her."

Joshua 24:22
Then Joshua told them, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD." "We are witnesses!" they said.

Psalm 37:24
Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.

Psalm 73:23
Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.


Treasury of Scripture

Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts.

let

Psalm 119:94,117
I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts…

Isaiah 41:10-14
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness…

Mark 9:24
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

for

Psalm 119:30,35,40,111
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me

Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Joshua 24:15,22
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD…

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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














Verse 173. - Let thine hand help me; literally, be to help me; i.e. be ever ready to help me. For I have chosen thy precepts. I have cast aside all other helpers, and have pinned my faith on thee and thy Word.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
May Your hand
יָדְךָ֥ (yā·ḏə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

be ready
תְּהִֽי־ (tə·hî-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

to help me,
לְעָזְרֵ֑נִי (lə·‘ā·zə·rê·nî)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5826: To surround, protect, aid

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

I have chosen
בָחָֽרְתִּי׃ (ḇā·ḥā·rə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 977: To try, select

Your precepts.
פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ (p̄iq·qū·ḏe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6490: Appointed, a mandate


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