Psalms 119:51
The proud have derided me beyond measure: I have not declined from thy law.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
In Context
50This is my comfort in mine affliction; for thy word hath quickened me.
52I remembered thy judgments of old, O Jehovah, and have comforted myself.
Cross References
Job 23:11My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
Psalms 119:21Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, who wander from thy commandments.
Psalms 119:69The proud have forged falsehood against me: I will observe thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
Psalms 123:3Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Isaiah 42:4He shall not faint nor be in haste, till he have set justice in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Luke 16:14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:51
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. Here is David's experience of benefit by the word. 1. As a means of his sanctification: " Thy word has quickened me. It made me alive when I was dead in sin; it has many a time made me lively when I was dead in duty; it has quickened me to that which is good when I was backward and averse to it, and it has quickened me in that which is good when I was cold and indifferent." 2. Therefore as a means of his consolation when he was in affliction… Read the whole commentary →