Psalm 17:5
New International Version
My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled.

New Living Translation
My steps have stayed on your path; I have not wavered from following you.

English Standard Version
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.

Berean Standard Bible
My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

King James Bible
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

New King James Version
Uphold my steps in Your paths, That my footsteps may not slip.

New American Standard Bible
My steps have held to Your paths. My feet have not slipped.

NASB 1995
My steps have held fast to Your paths. My feet have not slipped.

NASB 1977
My steps have held fast to Thy paths. My feet have not slipped.

Legacy Standard Bible
My steps have held fast to Your paths. My footsteps have not stumbled.

Amplified Bible
My steps have held closely to Your paths; My feet have not staggered.

Christian Standard Bible
My steps are on your paths; my feet have not slipped.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My steps are on Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

American Standard Version
My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You have supported my goings in your paths that my steps would not slip.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Direct my steps in thy paths, that my steps slip not.

Contemporary English Version
I have followed you, without ever stumbling.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.

English Revised Version
My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
my steps have remained firmly in your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Good News Translation
I have always walked in your way and have never strayed from it.

International Standard Version
Because my steps have held fast to your paths, my footsteps have not faltered.

JPS Tanakh 1917
My steps have held fast to Thy paths, My feet have not slipped.

Literal Standard Version
To uphold my goings in Your paths, | My steps have not slipped.

Majority Standard Bible
My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

New American Bible
My steps have kept to your paths; my feet have not faltered.

NET Bible
I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.

New Revised Standard Version
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.

New Heart English Bible
My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Webster's Bible Translation
Uphold my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

World English Bible
My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Young's Literal Translation
To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Hear My Righteous Plea
4As for the deeds of men—by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent. 5My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped. 6I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.…

Cross References
Job 23:11
My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

Psalm 18:36
You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

Psalm 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.

Psalm 44:18
Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Psalm 119:133
Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.


Treasury of Scripture

Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.

Hold

Psalm 119:116,117,133
Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope…

Psalm 121:3,7
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber…

1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

that

Psalm 18:36
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

Psalm 38:16
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

Psalm 94:18
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

slip not [Heb.

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Psalm 17
1. David, in confidence of his integrity, craves defense of God against his enemies
10. He shows their pride, craft, and eagerness
13. He prays against them in confidence of his hope














(5) Hold up.--Not, as in the Authorised Version, imperative, which is directly opposed to the context. The psalmist still asserts his innocence. Render:--

My course kept close in thy tracks,

My footsteps have not wavered.

(Comp. Job 23:11; Psalm 41:12.)

Paths.--Literally, wheel-tracks.

Verse 5. - Hold thou up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. So De Wette and Rosenmuller; but most recent critics prefer to consider the words as an assertion rather than a prayer, and translate, "My steps have held fast to thy paths: [therefore] my feet have not been moved" (Kay, Hengstenberg, Alexander, Cheyne, 'Speaker's Commentary,' Revised Version).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My steps
אֲ֭שֻׁרַי (’ă·šu·ray)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 838: Step, going

have clung
תָּמֹ֣ךְ (tā·mōḵ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 8551: To sustain, to obtain, keep fast, to help, follow close

to Your paths;
בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתֶ֑יךָ (bə·ma‘·gə·lō·w·ṯe·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4570: An entrenchment, track

my feet
פְעָמָֽי׃ (p̄ə·‘ā·māy)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6471: A beat, foot, anvil, occurrence

have not
בַּל־ (bal-)
Adverb
Strong's 1077: A failure, nothing, not at all, lest

slipped.
נָמ֥וֹטּוּ (nā·mō·wṭ·ṭū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4131: To waver, to slip, shake, fall


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