Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.

King James Version

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Holman Bible

The boundary lines have fallen for me
in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

International Standard Version

The boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places for me; truly, I have a beautiful heritage.

A Conservative Version

The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places. Yea, I have a fine heritage.

American Standard Version

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; Yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Amplified


The [boundary] lines [of the land] have fallen for me in pleasant places;
Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.

Bible in Basic English

Fair are the places marked out for me; I have a noble heritage.

Darby Translation

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Julia Smith Translation

The cords fell to me in sweetnesses; also the inheritance was bountiful upon me.

King James 2000

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, [my] inheritance is delightful for me.

Modern King James verseion

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yea, I have a beautiful inheritance.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The lot is fallen unto me in fair ground; yea I have a goodly heritage.

NET Bible

It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land.

New Heart English Bible

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

The Emphasized Bible

The lines, have fallen unto me, in pleasant places, Verily an inheritance that delighteth me.

Webster

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a goodly heritage.

World English Bible

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance is for me.

References

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Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Confidence In The Lord

5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; thou dost maintain my lot. 6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.
7 I will bless the LORD, who gives me counsel: my kidneys also instruct me in the night seasons.

Cross References

Psalm 78:55

He cast out the Gentiles also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their habitations.

Jeremiah 3:19

But I said, How shall I place thee as sons and give thee the desirable land, the heritage that the hosts of Gentiles desire? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father, and shalt not turn away from following me.

Psalm 21:1-3

The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy saving health how greatly shall he rejoice!

Amos 7:17

Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by lots; and thou shalt die in a polluted land; and Israel shall surely go into captivity from his land.

John 20:17

Jesus said unto her, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.

Romans 8:17

and if sons, also heirs certainly of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together with him.

1 Corinthians 3:21-23

Therefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;

Ephesians 1:18

illuminating the eyes of your understanding, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints

Philippians 2:9-11

Therefore, God also has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name,

2 Timothy 2:12

if we suffer, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;

Hebrews 12:2

with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who having been offered joy, endured the cross , despising the shame and was seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Revelation 3:21

To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with my Father in his throne.

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