Guidance & Direction Verses
Let God's word be a lamp to your feet. Verses on divine direction, purpose, and life's calling.
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth {like} dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. {puttest...: Heb. causest to cease}
Therefore I esteem all {thy} precepts {concerning} all {things to be} right; {and} I hate every false way.
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways {are} before thee.
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: {but} peace {shall be} upon Israel.
[A Song of degrees.] Blessed {is} every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
Thy wife {shall be} as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us {required of us} mirth, {saying}, Sing us {one} of the songs of Zion. {a song: Heb. the words of a song} {wasted...: Heb. laid us on heaps}
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great {is} the glory of the LORD.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted {with} all my ways. {compassest: or, winnowest}
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
And see if {there be any} wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. {wicked...: Heb. way of pain, or, grief}