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Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
103How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
104Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
105Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
106I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
107I am afflicted very much. Revive me, LORD, according to your word.
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A lamp at your feet makes guidance concrete: God's word bears on where you walk and the choices you make.
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Proverbs 6:23For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,Both passages describe God's instruction as a lamp and light, linking what God says with the way a person walks.
Psalm 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.Both passages connect God's light with guidance: one describes a lighted path, while the other asks to be led.
Psalm 18:28For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness.Both passages use a lamp to describe light received from God, with Psalm 18 naming the darkness God lights up.
2 Peter 1:19We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises …Both passages compare God's word to a lamp; Peter urges attention to the prophetic word shining in a dark place.
Job 29:3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,Both passages describe walking by light from God, though Job recalls that light as part of his past.
Psalm 19:8The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.Both passages connect God's instruction with light: his word lights the path, and his commandment enlightens the eyes.
Ephesians 5:13But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.Both use light as an image of making things visible, though Ephesians speaks of exposure and the psalm of guidance.
Psalm 119:130The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.Both verses say God's words give light, with verse 130 naming the understanding that this light brings.
John 3:21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”Both connect light with how a person lives: the psalm describes guidance, while John describes deeds brought into view.
Leviticus 24:2“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.The shared detail is a lamp giving light; Leviticus concerns an oil lamp, while the psalm uses a lamp as a comparison.
Ecclesiastes 2:13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.Both use light to describe something beneficial: God's word in the psalm and wisdom's advantage over folly in Ecclesiastes.
Exodus 25:37You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.Both describe lamps lighting what lies before them; Exodus concerns physical lamps, while the psalm compares God's word to one.
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The surrounding lines include affliction as well as a pledge to obey. Hard ground does not cancel the light: God's word still guides your path.
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