Psalm 119:78

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Summary

Psalm 119:78

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

The proud

Psalm 119:21

Psalm 35:26

Without

But i will

Psalm 119:23

Psalm 1:2

Bible References

The proud

You rebuke the arrogant, the cursed,
Who wander from Your commandments.

Let those be ashamed and humiliated altogether who rejoice at my distress;
Let those be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves over me.

Without

All Your commandments are faithful;
They have persecuted me with a lie; help me!

O Lord my God, if I have done this,
If there is injustice in my hands,

Indeed, none of those who wait for You will be ashamed;

Those who deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed.

For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies;

What I did not steal, I then have to restore.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without cause.

Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

He also said, “Why then is my lord pursuing his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

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.

But i will

Even though princes sit and talk against me,
Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.