Psalm 119:176 - The Scriptures 2009 I have strayed like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I have not forgotten Your commands. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek, inquire for, and demand Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments. [Isa. 53:6; Luke 15:4; I Pet. 2:25.] American Standard Version (1901) I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments. Common English Bible I’ve wandered off like a sheep, lost. Find your servant because I haven’t forgotten your commandments! |
The cords of the wrong have surrounded me, Your Torah I have not forgotten.
Let me never forget Your orders, For by them You have given me life.
Draw me! We run after you. The sovereign has brought me into his inner rooms. We exult and rejoice in you. We praise your carnal-love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.
We all, like sheep, went astray, each one of us has turned to his own way. And יהוה has laid on Him the crookedness of us all.
“I have clearly heard Ephrayim lamenting, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf. Turn me back, and I shall turn back, for You are יהוה my Elohim.
“My people have been wandering sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.
“I shall seek out the lost and bring back the strayed. And I shall bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick, but the fat and the strong I shall destroy. I shall feed them with right-ruling.”
“My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. And My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them.”
“My people have perished for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being priest for Me. Since you have forgotten the Torah of your Elohim, I also forget your children.
And He answering, said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra’ĕl.”
“And other sheep I have which are not of this fold – I have to bring them as well, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters, to which you wish to be enslaved again?
for it is Elohim who is working in you both to desire and to work for his good pleasure.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning.
For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your beings.