Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore I
King James Version
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
Holman Bible
as if they were
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.
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:119
Verse Info
Context Readings
Samek
118 You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false. 119 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. 120 My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.
Names
Cross References
Malachi 3:2-3
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
1 Samuel 15:23
For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.
Psalm 119:111
I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.
Psalm 119:126-128
It is time, O Lord, for you to let your work be seen; for they have made your law without effect.
Isaiah 1:25
And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;
Jeremiah 6:30
They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
Ezekiel 22:18-22
Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
Matthew 3:12
In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
Matthew 7:23
And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.
Matthew 13:40-42
As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world.
Matthew 13:49-50
So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,