Psalms 119:23
Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
In Context
22Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.
24Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:31For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingship shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”
Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Psalms 119:161Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
Luke 23:1Then the whole council rose and led Jesus away 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 →