Psalms Chapter 119 verse 176 Holy Bible
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments. Psalm 120 A Song of Ascents.
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I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
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I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant; for I have not forgotten thy commandments.
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I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
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I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments.
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I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!
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Psalms 119 : 176 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 176. - I have gone astray like a lost sheep (comp. ver. 67). Some see in this verse nothing but a reference to the outward circumstances of the psalmist's life. But this is certainly not the idea generally attached in Scripture to the image of the "lost sheep" (see Isaiah 53:6; Jeremiah 1:6; Luke 15:4-7; 1 Peter 2:25). Dean Johnson's exposition is probably correct, "I have wandered far from thee and from home, as a sheep lost and ready to perish in the wilderness." Seek thy servant. "Seek him, lest he be not able of himself to seek thee; and bring him again to thy fold." For I do not forget thy commandments. In my worst wanderings I have not fallen away wholly from thee. Thy Law has been ever in my thoughts. I have not "forgotten" it, but meditated on it and longed for it (vers. 15, 20, 40).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(176) I have gone astray like a lost sheep.--It would be in accordance with a true religious character that even at the end of a long protestation of obedience to the Divine law the psalmist should confess his weakness and sin. But while this may be a legitimate application of the close of this remarkable composition, and while the LXX. suggest a comparison with our Lord's parable by their rendering (comp. Matthew 18:11; Luke 19:10), this could hardly have been the intention of the words of this verse. More likely there is a reference to the condition of the community, for the word rendered "lost" (literally, perishing) is used in Isaiah 27:13 of the exiled Hebrews, and is rendered "outcasts;" the emphatic "I do not forget Thy commandments," which is the real close of the psalm, seems to make this view imperative.
