Psalm 119:78

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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] accursed, who stray from your commands.

Let them be shamed and abashed altogether, who rejoice at my misfortune. Let them put on shame and insult, who magnify themselves against me.

Without

All your commands [are] faithful. They persecute me deceitfully; help me!

O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

Indeed, none who wait for you should be put to shame. Those who betray without cause should be put to shame.

For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug [it] for my life.

More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.

They also surround me with words of hate, and fight me without cause.

Look, this day your eyes have seen that Yahweh gave you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you. But {I took pity} on you and said, 'I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, because he [is] Yahweh's anointed one.'

Then he said, "Why [is] my lord pursuing after his servant? For what have I done? And what evil [is] in my hand?

But [this happened] so that the word that is written in their law would be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a reason.'

For what credit [is it] if, [when you] sin and are beaten [for it], you endure? But if you endure [when you] do good and suffer [for it], this [finds] favor with God.

But i will

Even [though] princes sit [and] speak against me, your servant meditates on your statutes.

Instead, in the law of Yahweh [is] his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night.