Psalms 119:23
Even though princes sit and talk against me, thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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.
24Yea, Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counsellors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:31For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he deserveth to die.'
Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?
Psalms 119:161SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of Thy words.
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 →