Psalms 17:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

Psalms 17:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 44:18
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Psalms 119:133
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
Psalms 18:36
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
Psalms 121:7
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

This psalm is a prayer. As there is a time to weep and a time to rejoice, so there is a time for praise and a time for prayer. David was now persecuted, probably by Saul, who hunted him like a partridge on the mountains; without were fightings, within were fears, and both urged him as a suppliant to the throne of mercy. He addresses himself to God in these verses both by way of appeal (Hear the ri…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. May be read as an assertion “my steps or goings have held on to Thy paths.”