Psalm 19:14 KJV

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.King James Version

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The same verse in modern English

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.Psalm 19:14, World English Bible (WEB)

Psalm 19:14 in the WEB, with its own quiet pause

Sitting with this verse

After the skies and the law, the psalm ends in prayer; the heading names David. “Meditation” translates a Hebrew word for a low murmur, thought half spoken aloud. He asks that both his words and his inner musings please God. The KJV calls the LORD “my strength,” the WEB “my rock,” and a redeemer was the next of kin who bought back what was lost. Let your words today begin here.

Older words in this verse

thy, thine: your, yours

From Psalm 19

The sky speaks all day without a single word. Listen to it, then invite God to show you the faults hidden even from yourself.

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The reading prompts in this Bible use the wording of the World English Bible.

For your own quiet time, Stilling Waves makes a journal for this chapter: When You Believed but the Bible Still Reads Like a Foreign Language.

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Scripture: King James Version (1769 text), from eBible.org and the CrossWire Bible Society; public domain outside the United Kingdom, and in the United Kingdom under Crown patent, administered by Cambridge University Press. About the KJV here.