Psalm 119:119
Strong's Lexicon
All
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: 1) all, the whole 1a) all, the whole of 1b) any, each, every, anything 1c) totality, everything

the wicked
רִשְׁעֵי־ (riš·‘ê-)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 7563: 1) wicked, criminal 1a) guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst) 1b) wicked (hostile to God) 1c) wicked, guilty of sin (against God or man)

on earth
אָ֑רֶץ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: 1) land, earth 1a) earth 1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part) 1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven) 1a3) earth (inhabitants) 1b) land 1b1) country, territory 1b2) district, region 1b3) tribal territory 1b4) piece of ground 1b5) land of Canaan, Israel 1b6) inhabitants of land 1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world 1b8) city (-state) 1c) ground, surface of the earth 1c1) ground 1c2) soil 1d) (in phrases) 1d1) people of the land 1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance) 1d3) level or plain country 1d4) land of the living 1d5) end(s) of the earth 1e) (almost wholly late in usage) 1e1) lands, countries 1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan

You discard
הִשְׁבַּ֥תָּ (hiš·ba·tā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7673: 1) to cease, desist, rest 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cease 1a2) to rest, desist (from labour) 1b) (Niphal) to cease 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to cease, put an end to 1c2) to exterminate, destroy 1c3) to cause to desist from 1c4) to remove 1c5) to cause to fail 2) (Qal) to keep or observe the sabbath

like dross;
סִגִ֗ים (si·ḡîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5509: 1) a moving back or away 2) dross (usually of silver)

therefore
לָ֝כֵ֗ן (lā·ḵên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3651: adv 1) so, therefore, thus 1a) thus, so 1b) just so 1c) therefore 1d) so...as (paired with adv) 1e) then 1f) forasmuch as (in phrase) 1g) (with prep) 1g1) therefore, this being so (specific) 1g2) hitherto 1g3) therefore, on this ground (general) 1g4) afterwards 1g5) in such case adj 2) right, just, honest, true, veritable 2a) right, just, honest 2b) correct 2c) true, veritable 2d) true!, right!, correct! (in assent)

I love
אָהַ֥בְתִּי (’ā·haḇ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 157: 1) to love 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like

Your testimonies.
עֵדֹתֶֽיךָ׃ (‘ê·ḏō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5713: 1) testimony, witness 1a) always plural and always of laws as divine testimonies

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You remove all the wicked on earthas if they were dross; therefore , I love Your decrees.

New American Standard Bible
You have removed all the wicked of the earth [like] dross; Therefore I love Your testimonies.

King James Bible
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross; therefore I love your statutes.

New Living Translation
You skim off the wicked of the earth like scum; no wonder I love to obey your laws!

English Standard Version
All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.

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

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

Holman Christian Standard 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.

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

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

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

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
















Cross References
Psalm 2:11
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Psalm 119:47
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

Isaiah 1:22
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

Isaiah 1:25
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

Jeremiah 6:30
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Ezekiel 22:19
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 119:118
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

Psalm 119:117
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

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