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Psa. 119:59 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I thought
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
l on my ways
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
, and turned
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
my feet
regel (Hebrew #7272)
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphem. the pudenda
KJV usage: X be able to endure, X according as, X after, X coming, X follow, ((broken-))foot((-ed, -stool)), X great toe, X haunt, X journey, leg, + piss, + possession, time.
Pronounce: reh'-gel
Origin: from 7270
unto thy testimonies
`edah (Hebrew #5713)
testimony
KJV usage: testimony, witness. Compare 5712.
Pronounce: ay-daw'
Origin: feminine of 5707 in its techn. sense
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Lam. 3:40‑41• 40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
 41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto *God in the heavens. (Lam. 3:40‑41)
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Luke 15:17‑18• 17And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.
 18I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; (Luke 15:17‑18)

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Lam. 3:40• 40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. (Lam. 3:40)
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Ezek. 18:28,30• 28Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
 30Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your snare. (Ezek. 18:28,30)
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Hag. 1:5,7• 5And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
 7Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways. (Hag. 1:5,7)
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Luke 15:17‑20• 17And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.
 18I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;
 19I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
 20And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses. (Luke 15:17‑20)
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2 Cor. 13:5• 5examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates? (2 Cor. 13:5)
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Deut. 4:30‑31• 30In thy tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee, at the end of days, thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice,
 31--for Jehovah thy God is a merciful *God,--he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them. (Deut. 4:30‑31)
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Jer. 8:4‑6• 4And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Do men fall, and not rise up? Doth one turn away, and not return?
 5Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
 6I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle. (Jer. 8:4‑6)
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Jer. 31:18‑19• 18I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock not trained: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.
 19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth. (Jer. 31:18‑19)
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Ezek. 33:14‑16,19• 14And when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die, and he turneth from his sin, and doeth judgment and justice;
 15if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, doing nothing that is wrong; he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
 16None of his sins which he hath committed shall be remembered against him: he hath done judgment and justice; he shall certainly live.
 19And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall live for these things. (Ezek. 33:14‑16,19)
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Joel 2:13• 13and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. (Joel 2:13)
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2 Cor. 12:21• 21lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:21)
• (vv. 59-60) The desire to obey the Word, and enjoy the favor of the Lord, of necessity leads to exercise of heart as to his ways. Are they suited to one who has the Lord for his portion? Therefore, he says. “I thought on my ways;” with the practical result that he turned his feet unto the testimonies of the Lord, not reluctantly, but with diligent haste. (“Psalm 119:57-64: Division 8 (Cheth)” by H. Smith)
• I see the same desire, not mere obedience though resulting in it, but the meditation of the heart: “I thought on my ways” —the heart's inward exercises, a needful and important matter for us— “and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.” We may obey instinctively, carelessly almost, with right intention, but showing that the heart is not with God, not exercised, not anxious as to pleasing Him, and in which, though the path be not evil, the heart may be in a very poor state. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 119:25-72” by J.N. Darby)
• For we may be externally blameless, in appearance even amiable, and unfaithful to the calling of God. Here, of course, we have to turn to God's testimonies which are able to make the man of God perfect, “throughly furnished unto all good works.” We see how having the Lord for our portion is the very spring of all this. Thus we should have a heart which thinks on our ways. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 119:25-72” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.