Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Take away reproach and contempt from me,
For I observe Your testimonies.

King James Version

Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

Holman Bible

Take insult and contempt away from me,
for I have kept Your decrees.

International Standard Version

Remove scorn and disrespect from me, for I observe your decrees.

A Conservative Version

Take away from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept thy testimonies.

American Standard Version

Take away from me reproach and contempt; For I have kept thy testimonies.

Amplified


Take reproach and contempt away from me,
For I observe Your testimonies.

Bible in Basic English

Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.

Darby Translation

Roll off from me reproach and contempt; for I observe thy testimonies.

Julia Smith Translation

Roll off from me reproach and contempt, for I watched thy testimonies.

King James 2000

Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{Remove from} me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies.

Modern King James verseion

Remove cursing and scorn from me; for I have kept Your testimonies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O turn from me shame and rebuke, for I have kept thy testimonies.

NET Bible

Spare me shame and humiliation, for I observe your rules.

New Heart English Bible

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

The Emphasized Bible

Roll from off me, reproach and contempt, For, thy testimonies, have I observed.

Webster

Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

World English Bible

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

Youngs Literal Translation

Remove from me reproach and contempt, For Thy testimonies I have kept.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Gimel

21 You rebuke the arrogant, the cursed,
Who wander from Your commandments.
22 Take away reproach and contempt from me,
For I observe Your testimonies.
23 Even though princes sit and talk against me,
Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

Cross References

Psalm 39:8

Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Psalm 119:39

Turn away my reproach which I dread,
For Your ordinances are good.

1 Samuel 25:10

But Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master.

1 Samuel 25:39

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept back His servant from evil. The Lord has also returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife.

2 Samuel 16:7-8

Thus Shimei said when he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, and worthless fellow!

Job 16:20

“My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.

Job 19:2-3

“How long will you torment me
And crush me with words?

Psalm 37:3

Trust in the Lord and do good;
Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

Psalm 37:6

He will bring forth your righteousness as the light
And your judgment as the noonday.

Psalm 42:10

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 68:9-11

You shed abroad a plentiful rain, O God;
You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched.

Psalm 68:19-20

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden,
The God who is our salvation. Selah.

Psalm 119:42

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me,
For I trust in Your word.

Psalm 123:3-4

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.

Hebrews 13:13

So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

1 Peter 2:20

For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.

1 Peter 3:16-17

and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

1 Peter 4:14-16

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

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