Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love thy testimonies.

New American Standard Bible

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

King James Version

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

Holman Bible

You remove all the wicked on earth
as if they were dross;
therefore, I love Your decrees.

International Standard Version

You remove all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love your decrees.

A Conservative Version

Thou put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love thy testimonies.

Amplified


You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross [for they have no value];
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

Bible in Basic English

All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.

Darby Translation

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

Julia Smith Translation

The dross thou didst cause to cease, all the unjust of the earth: for this I loved thy testimonies.

King James 2000

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You remove all the wicked of [the] earth [like] dross, therefore I love your testimonies.

Modern King James verseion

You put away all the wicked of the earth like waste; therefore I love Your testimonies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

NET Bible

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules.

New Heart English Bible

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

The Emphasized Bible

Dross, have I accounted all the lawless of the earth, therefore do I love thy testimonies.

Webster

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

World English Bible

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

Youngs Literal Translation

Dross! Thou hast caused to cease All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Thy testimonies.

Context Readings

Samek

118 Thou hast set at nought all them that err from thy statutes; For their deceit is falsehood. 119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love thy testimonies. 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; And I am afraid of thy judgments.


Cross References

Malachi 3:2-3

But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap:

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Psalm 119:111

Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Psalm 119:126-128

It is time for Jehovah to work; For they have made void thy law.

Isaiah 1:25

and I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin;

Jeremiah 6:30

Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.

Ezekiel 22:18-22

Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

Matthew 3:12

whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.

Matthew 7:23

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Matthew 13:40-42

As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire; so shall it be in the end of the world.

Matthew 13:49-50

So shall it be in the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the righteous,

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