11 translations · Hebrew
Psalm 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Psalm 119:97 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
- KJV King James Version
- O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- [MEM] O how I have loved Your law! It [is] my meditation all the day.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- I really love your law! I meditate on it all day long.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- [Mem.] O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it [is] my meditation.
- DBY Darby Translation
- MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- MEM. O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899 · Psalm 118:97 in this edition
- MEM. O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָֽה־ | māh- | Oh, how | H4100 מָה what? |
| אָהַ֥בְתִּי | ’ā·haḇ·tî | I love | H157 אָהֵב to love: lover |
| תוֹרָתֶ֑ךָ | ṯō·w·rā·ṯe·ḵā | Your law | H8451 תּוֹרָה instruction |
| כָּל־ | kāl- | All | H3605 כֹּל all |
| הַ֝יּ֗וֹם | hay·yō·wm | day long | H3117 יוֹם day |
| הִ֣יא | hî | it | H1931 הוּא he/she/it |
| שִׂיחָתִֽי׃ | śî·ḥā·ṯî | is my meditation | H7881 שִׂיחָה meditation |
Related verses
- Psalm 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
- Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
- Psalm 119:159
Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
- Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
- Psalm 119:48
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
- Deuteronomy 17:19
It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
- Psalm 119:167
My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
- Deuteronomy 6:6–9
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. …
- Psalm 119:127
Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
- Psalm 119:165
Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
95 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
96 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
97 How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
Read all of Psalm 119 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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