Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

King James Version

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

Holman Bible

You remove all the wicked on earth
as if they were dross;
therefore, I love Your decrees.

International Standard Version

You remove all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love your decrees.

A Conservative Version

Thou put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love thy testimonies.

American Standard Version

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love thy testimonies.

Amplified


You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross [for they have no value];
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

Bible in Basic English

All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.

Darby Translation

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

Julia Smith Translation

The dross thou didst cause to cease, all the unjust of the earth: for this I loved thy testimonies.

King James 2000

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You remove all the wicked of [the] earth [like] dross, therefore I love your testimonies.

Modern King James verseion

You put away all the wicked of the earth like waste; therefore I love Your testimonies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

NET Bible

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules.

New Heart English Bible

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

The Emphasized Bible

Dross, have I accounted all the lawless of the earth, therefore do I love thy testimonies.

Webster

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

World English Bible

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

Youngs Literal Translation

Dross! Thou hast caused to cease All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Thy testimonies.

Context Readings

Samek

118 You have rejected all those who wander from Your statutes,
For their deceitfulness is useless.
119 You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of You,
And I am afraid of Your judgments.


Cross References

Malachi 3:2-3

“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

1 Samuel 15:23

“For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He has also rejected you from being king.”

Psalm 119:111

I have inherited Your testimonies forever,
For they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:126-128

It is time for the Lord to act,
For they have broken Your law.

Isaiah 1:25

“I will also turn My hand against you,
And will smelt away your dross as with lye
And will remove all your alloy.

Jeremiah 6:30

They call them rejected silver,
Because the Lord has rejected them.

Ezekiel 22:18-22

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 7:23

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

Matthew 13:40-42

So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age.

Matthew 13:49-50

So it will be at the end of the age; the angels will come forth and take out the wicked from among the righteous,

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