11 translations · Hebrew
Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Psalm 19:14 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
- KJV King James Version
- Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Let the sayings of my mouth, || And the meditation of my heart, || Be for a pleasing thing before You, || O YHWH, my rock, and my redeemer!
- FBV Free Bible Version
- May you be pleased with the words I speak, and the thoughts I think, Lord my rock and my redeemer.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!
- DBY Darby Translation
- Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899 · Psalm 18:15 in this edition
- And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper, and my redeemer.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יִֽהְי֥וּ | yih·yū | be | H1961 הָיָה to be |
| לְרָצ֨וֹן׀ | lə·rā·ṣō·wn | pleasing | H7522 רָצוֹן acceptance |
| אִמְרֵי־ | ’im·rê- | May the words | H561 אֵמֶר word |
| פִ֡י | p̄î | of my mouth | H6310 פֶּה lip |
| וְהֶגְי֣וֹן | wə·heḡ·yō·wn | and the meditation | H1902 הִגָּיוֹן Higgaion |
| לִבִּ֣י | lib·bî | of my heart | H3820 לֵב heart |
| לְפָנֶ֑יךָ | lə·p̄ā·ne·ḵā | in Your sight | H6440 פָּנֶה face: before |
| יְ֝הוָ֗ה | Yah·weh | O LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| צוּרִ֥י | ṣū·rî | my Rock | H6697 צוּר Rocks (of Goats) |
| וְגֹאֲלִֽי׃ | wə·ḡō·’ă·lî | and my Redeemer | H1350 גָּאַל to redeem: redeem |
Related verses
- Psalm 104:34
Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
- Psalm 51:15
Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
- Psalm 119:108
Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
- 1 Peter 2:5
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- Psalm 66:18–20
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened. But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.
- Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- Psalm 18:1–2
I love you, Yahweh, my strength. Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Psalm 5:1–2
Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation. Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.
- Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Hebrews 11:4
By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Read all of Psalm 19 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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