Psalm 119:37 {118:37}
Good News Translation
Keep me from paying attention to what is worthless; be good to me, as you have promised.

New Revised Standard Version
Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; give me life in your ways.

Contemporary English Version
Take away my foolish desires, and let me find life by walking with you.

New American Bible
Avert my eyes from what is worthless; by your way give me life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.

turn.

Numbers 15:39 That when they shall see them, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and eyes going astray after divers things,

Joshua 7:21 For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment, exceeding good, and two hundred sicles of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sicles: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground in the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.

2 Samuel 11:2 In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful.

Job 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

Proverbs 4:25 Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.

Proverbs 23:5 Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.

Isaiah 33:15 He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

Matthew 5:28 But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.

quicken

Psalm 119:25,40 My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
36Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness. 37Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.38Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.…
Cross References
Psalm 71:20
How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

Psalm 119:25
My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.

Isaiah 33:15
He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

Psalm 119:36
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