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Psalms 119:172

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

KJV

Let my tongue sing of thy word; For all thy commandments are righteousness.

ASV

תַּ֣עַן לְ֭שׁוֹנִ/י אִמְרָתֶ֑/ךָ כִּ֖י כָל מִצְוֺתֶ֣י/ךָ צֶּֽדֶק

Hebrew

My tongue doth sing of Thy saying, For all Thy commands are righteous.

YLT

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ו
v
noun · 183×
ךָ
k
noun · 37×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
noun · 116×
נִי
ny
verb · 325×
צֶ֑דֶק
tsdq
noun · 116×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Col 4:6 — Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
  • Eph 4:29 — Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
  • Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • Ps 37:30 — The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
  • Ps 40:9 — I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
  • Ps 119:13 — With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
  • Ps 119:13 — With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
  • Ps 119:66 — Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
  • Ps 119:86 — All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
  • Ps 119:138 — Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
  • Ps 119:142 — Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
  • Rom 7:12 — Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
  • Rom 7:12 — Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
  • Rom 7:14 — For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.