Psalm 119:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; be gracious to me according to your word.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; And quicken thou me in thy way.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity (idols and idolatry); and restore me to vigorous life and health in Your ways.

American Standard Version (1901)

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

Common English Bible

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Make me live by your way.

Psalm 119:37 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, could I look upon a virgin?

Psalm 119:25

My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to your word.

Psalm 119:40

See, I have longed for your precepts; in your righteousness be gracious to me.

Psalm 71:20

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.

Proverbs 23:5

When your eyes light upon it, it is gone, for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 4:25

Let your eyes look directly forward and your gaze be straight before you.

Isaiah 33:15

Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly, who despise the gain of oppression, who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it, who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed and shut their eyes from looking on evil,

Numbers 15:39

You have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them and not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Joshua 7:21

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. They now lie hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

1 John 2:16

for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.