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. This is because 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 out of respect for you. I truly reverence (respect) your judgments.

Cross References

Malachi 3:2-3

Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? He is like a refiner's fire and like laundry soap (the lye of laundrymen).

1 Samuel 15:23

The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.

Psalm 119:111

I have inherited your laws forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:126-128

It is time for Jehovah to act. They have broken your law.

Isaiah 1:25

I will turn my power against you (turn the back of my hand upon you). I will remove your impurities with bleach. I will get rid of all your worthless qualities.

Jeremiah 6:30

They call them rejected silver, for Jehovah has rejected them.

Ezekiel 22:18-22

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.

Matthew 7:23

I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of evil.'

Matthew 13:40-42

The weeds are gathered up and burned (destroyed) with fire. It will be this way at the end of the age.

Matthew 13:49-50

It will be that way at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous.

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