Psalms 119:23
Princes also did sit [and] talk together against me: thy servant doth meditate in thy statutes.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
In Context
22Roll off from me reproach and contempt; for I observe thy testimonies.
24Thy testimonies also are my delight [and] my counsellors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:31For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. And now send and fetch him to me, for he must die.
Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and [why] do the peoples meditate a vain thing?
Psalms 119:161SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Luke 23:1And the whole multitude of them, rising up, 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 →