Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

I will bow down toward Your holy temple
and give thanks to Your name
for Your constant love and truth.
You have exalted Your name
and Your promise above everything else.

New American Standard Bible

I will bow down toward Your holy temple
And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name.

King James Version

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

International Standard Version

I will bow down in worship toward your holy Temple and give thanks to your name for your gracious love and truth, for you have done great things to carry out your word consistent with your name.

A Conservative Version

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and give thanks to thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth. For thou have magnified thy word above all thy name.

American Standard Version

I will worship toward thy holy temple, And give thanks unto thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

Amplified


I will bow down [in worship] toward Your holy temple
And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word together with Your name.

Bible in Basic English

I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.

Darby Translation

I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness, and celebrate thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

Julia Smith Translation

I will worship to thy holy temple, and I will praise thy name for thy mercy and for thy truth: for thou didst magnify thy word over all thy name.

King James 2000

I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have magnified your word according to all your name.

Modern King James verseion

I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth's sake; for You have magnified Your Word above all Your name.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name, because of thy loving-kindness and truth; for thou hast magnified thy word, according unto thy great name.

NET Bible

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have exalted your promise above the entire sky.

New Heart English Bible

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

The Emphasized Bible

I will bow down towards thy holy temple, and thank thy Name, for thy lovingkindness and for thy faithfulness, For thou hast magnified, above all thy Name, thy word!

Webster

I will worship towards thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

World English Bible

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Youngs Literal Translation

I bow myself toward Thy holy temple, And I confess Thy name, For Thy kindness, and for Thy truth, For Thou hast made great Thy saying above all Thy name.

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Psalm 138:2

References

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Prayers for Psalm 138:2

Context Readings

A Thankful Heart

1 Davidic.I will give You thanks with all my heart;
I will sing Your praise before the heavenly beings.
2 I will bow down toward Your holy temple
and give thanks to Your name
for Your constant love and truth.
You have exalted Your name
and Your promise above everything else.
3 On the day I called, You answered me;
You increased strength within me.


Cross References

Psalm 5:7

But I enter Your house
by the abundance of Your faithful love;
I bow down toward Your holy temple
in reverential awe of You.

Psalm 28:2

Listen to the sound of my pleading
when I cry to You for help,
when I lift up my hands
toward Your holy sanctuary.

Isaiah 42:21

The Lord was pleased, because of His righteousness,
to magnify His instruction and make it glorious.

1 Kings 8:29-30

so that Your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,
toward the place where You said:
My name will be there,
and so that You may hear the prayer
that Your servant prays toward this place.

Daniel 6:10

When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

Psalm 36:5-6

Lord, Your faithful love reaches to heaven,
Your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalm 56:4

In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?

Psalm 56:10

In God, whose word I praise,
in the Lord, whose word I praise,

Psalm 85:10

Faithful love and truth will join together;
righteousness and peace will embrace.

Psalm 86:15

But You, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth.

Psalm 89:1-2

A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.I will sing about the Lord’s faithful love forever;
I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations
with my mouth.

Psalm 99:5

Exalt the Lord our God;
bow in worship at His footstool.
He is holy.

Psalm 99:9

Exalt the Lord our God;
bow in worship at His holy mountain,
for the Lord our God is holy.

Psalm 100:4-5

Enter His gates with thanksgiving
and His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him and praise His name.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
but to Your name give glory
because of Your faithful love, because of Your truth.

Isaiah 63:7

I will make known the Lord’s faithful love
and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,
because of all the Lord has done for us—
even the many good things
He has done for the house of Israel
and has done for them based on His compassion
and the abundance of His faithful love.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like You,
removing iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not hold on to His anger forever,
because He delights in faithful love.

Matthew 5:18

For I assure you: Until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass from the law until all things are accomplished.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

Luke 1:68-72

Praise the Lord, the God of Israel,
because He has visited
and provided redemption for His people.

John 1:17

for the law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

John 10:35

If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

Romans 15:8-9

For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises to the fathers,

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