Psalms 119:21
You have rebuked the cursed proud, || Who are erring from Your commands.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
In Context
20My soul has broken for desire || To Your judgments at all times.
22Remove reproach and contempt from me, || For I have kept Your testimonies.
Cross References
Exodus 10:3And Moses comes in—Aaron also—to Pharaoh, and they say to him, “Thus said YHWH, God of the Hebrews: Until when have you refused to be humbled at My presence? Send My people away, and they serve Me,
Deuteronomy 27:15“Cursed [is] the man who makes a carved and molten image, an abomination [to] YHWH, work of the hands of a craftsman, and has put [it] in a secret place.” And all the people have answered and said, “Amen.”
Deuteronomy 28:15And it has been, if you do not listen to the voice of your God YHWH, to observe to do all His commands and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these revilings have come on you and overtaken you:
Nehemiah 9:16And they and our fathers have acted proudly, || And harden their neck, || And have not listened to Your commands,
Job 40:11Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, || And see every proud one, and make him low.
Psalms 119:78The proud are ashamed, || For [with] falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate on Your precepts.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:21
20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. David had prayed that God would open his eyes ( v. 18 ) and open the law ( v. 19 ); now here he pleads the earnestness of his desire for knowledge and grace, for it is the fervent prayer that avails much. 1. His desire was importunate: My soul breaketh for the longing it hath to thy judgments, or (as some read it) " It is taken up, and wholly employed, in longing for thy judgments; the whole stream of its desires runs in this… Read the whole commentary →