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Psalms 119:176

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

KJV

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

ASV

תָּעִ֗יתִי כְּ/שֶׂ֣ה אֹ֭בֵד בַּקֵּ֣שׁ עַבְדֶּ֑/ךָ כִּ֥י מִ֝צְוֺתֶ֗י/ךָ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי

Hebrew

I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בַקֵּ֥שׁ
bqsh
verb · 225×
ו
v
noun · 183×
ךָ
k
noun · 791×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 183×
ם
m
verb · 51×
שָׁכָֽחְתִּי
shkchty
verb · 102×
שֶׂ֖ה
shh
noun · 45×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way. This is the longest Psalm and indeed the longest chapter in the Bible. Its singular theme is the excellency and authority of the Word of God. Through eight synonyms for Scripture — law, testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments, judgments, word, and ordinances — the psalmist expresses his love for and dependence upon divine revelation. …

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 2:25 — For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
  • 1Pet 2:25 — For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
  • Deut 26:13 — Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the w
  • Ezek 34:6 — 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.
  • Ezek 34:11 — For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
  • Ezek 34:16 — I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong;
  • Gal 4:9 — But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
  • Gal 5:17 — For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
  • Hos 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
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Jas 1:17 — Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
  • Jer 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 Go
  • Jer 50:6 — My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace
  • John 10:16 — And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
  • Luke 15:4 — What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
  • Luke 15:4 — What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
  • Luke 15:6 — And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
  • Luke 19:10 — For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
  • Matt 10:6 — But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
  • Matt 10:6 — But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
  • Matt 15:24 — But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
  • Matt 18:12 — How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
  • Matt 18:12 — How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
  • Phil 2:13 — For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
  • Prov 3:1 — My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
  • Ps 14:3 — They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
  • Ps 23:3 — He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
  • Ps 119:8 — I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
  • Ps 119:10 — With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • Ps 119:16 — I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  • Ps 119:61 — The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
  • Ps 119:61 — The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
  • Ps 119:67 — Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
  • Ps 119:83 — For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
  • Ps 119:93 — I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
  • Ps 119:153 — Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
  • Rom 7:18 — For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
  • Song 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.