Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Let the proud be ashamed; for they perverted my cause with lying; I will think on Your Commandments.
New American Standard Bible
But I shall
King James Version
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Holman Bible
for slandering me with lies;
I will meditate on Your precepts.
International Standard Version
May the arrogant become ashamed, because they have subverted me with deceit; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.
A Conservative Version
Let the proud be put to shame, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on thy precepts.
American Standard Version
Let the proud be put to shame; For they have overthrown me wrongfully: But I will meditate on thy precepts.
Amplified
Let the arrogant be ashamed and humiliated, for they sabotage me with a lie;
But I will meditate on Your precepts.
Bible in Basic English
Let the men of pride be shamed; because they have falsely given decision against me; but I will give thought to your orders.
Darby Translation
Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts.
Julia Smith Translation
The proud shall be ashamed, for they acted perversely to me without cause: I will meditate in thy charges
King James 2000
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let the arrogant be put to shame, because they have wronged me [with] lies. As for me, I will meditate on your precepts.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let the proud be confounded, for they go wickedly about to destroy me; but I will be occupied in thy commandments.
NET Bible
May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me! But I meditate on your precepts.
New Heart English Bible
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
The Emphasized Bible
Let insolent men, be ashamed, because, by means of falsehood, they have dealt with me perversely, I, will meditate in thy precepts.
Webster
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
World English Bible
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:78
Verse Info
Context Readings
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:10-12
Behold, your eyes have seen today how Jehovah had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. And one said to kill you. But I had pity on you. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is Jehovah's anointed.
1 Samuel 24:17
And he said to David, You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, but I have rewarded you evil.
1 Samuel 26:18
And he said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant this way? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?
Psalm 1:2
But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah; and in His Law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 7:3-5
O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;
Psalm 25:3
Yea, let none who wait on You be ashamed; let them be ashamed who sin without cause.
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have spread their net for me in a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul.
Psalm 35:26
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor together, those who magnify themselves over me.
Psalm 69:4
They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies. Then I restored what I did not take away.
Psalm 109:3
And they surrounded me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Psalm 119:21
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who go astray from Your Commandments.
Psalm 119:23
Princes also sat and spoke against me; but Your servant thought on Your Precepts.
Psalm 119:51
The proud have utterly scorned me; yet I have not turned aside from Your Law.
Psalm 119:85-86
The proud have dug pits for me, which are not according to Your Law.
Jeremiah 50:32
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall burn up everything all around him.
John 15:25
But that the Word might be fulfilled that is written in their Law, "They hated Me without a cause."
1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is it if you patiently endure while sinning and being buffeted? But if you suffer while doing good, and patiently endure, this is a grace from God.