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Psalms 119:23

Rulers also sat and talked against me, [but] thy servant meditated on thy statutes.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

22Take away from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept thy testimonies.

24Thy testimonies also are my delight [and] my counselors.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 20:31For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the ground, thou shall not be established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now send and fetch him to me, for he shall surely die.

Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things (LXX/NT)?

Psalms 119:161Rulers have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.

Luke 23:1And having risen, the whole company of them led him to Pilate.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:23

22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. Here, 1. David prays against the reproach and contempt of men, that they might be removed, or (as the word is) rolled, from off him. This intimates that they lay upon him, and that neither his greatness nor his goodness could secure him from being libelled and lampooned. Some despised him and endeavoured to make him mean; others reproached him and endeavoured to make him odious. It has often been the lot of those that do well to be… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

King James VersionBíblia Portuguesa MundialLuther Bibel (Deutsch)Bible Louis Segond (Français)Библия (Русский)新标点和合本성경 (한국어)الكتاب المقدس باللغة العربية، فان دايكBibbia Diodati (Italiano)Kinh Thánh (Tiếng Việt)Biblia Cornilescu (Română)Polish Biblia Gdanska (1881)Statenvertaling (Nederlands)

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