Psalm 119:161

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Summary

Psalm 119:161

SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Princes

John 15:25

My heart

Bible References

Princes

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Have I need of mad-men, that ye have brought this man to play the mad-man in my presence? shall this man come into my house?

And David said to Saul, Why hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

And he said, Why doth my lord thus pursue his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

My heart

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

There is none greater in his house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

But the former governors, that had been before me were chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

For all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the scribe's pen-knife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.