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Psalm 119:133

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

131I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
134Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.
135Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
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Footsteps and dominion make obedience a matter of direction and rule: the prayer asks God to establish each step and keep iniquity from taking command.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 37:23A man’s steps are established by the LORD. He delights in his way.Both passages describe steps established by God; Psalm 119 asks that those footsteps be established in his word.
Psalm 19:13Keep 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 …Both prayers ask God to keep sin from having dominion over the person praying.
John 8:36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.The psalm asks for protection from iniquity’s rule; Jesus speaks of freedom that the Son gives.
Psalm 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.Both use the footing of a person to describe God’s help: established footsteps and feet set on rock.
Psalm 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.Both describe faithfulness through footsteps: one asks God to establish them, while the other describes steps holding to his paths.
Romans 6:12–14Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.Both speak of sin as a ruler whose dominion must be resisted, using the language of dominion and reign.
1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.Both connect secure footsteps with God’s help: he establishes steps and keeps the feet of his holy ones.
Romans 7:23–24but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.Iniquity’s dominion and captivity under sin’s law both describe sin as a power that can take control.
Romans 7:21I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.Both acknowledge evil alongside a desire for good: the psalm seeks obedience, while Romans names evil’s presence.
Luke 22:40When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”Both make prayer a response to the danger of sin: seeking protection from its dominion and from entering temptation.
Galatians 5:17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.Both concern opposition to faithful conduct: the psalm names iniquity’s dominion, while Galatians describes the flesh opposing the Spirit.
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Encouragement

Asking God to establish your footsteps is a prayer worth making before the next choice. His word gives direction, and this prayer seeks his help against sin’s rule.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).