Psalms 119:23
Though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will muse on your statutes.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
In Context
22Roll away from me scorn and contempt, for I have observed your charges.
24Your charges are my delight, they are my counsellors.
Cross References
Psalms 2:1Why this turmoil of nations, this futile plotting of peoples,
Psalms 119:161Princes have harassed me wantonly: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
Luke 23:1Then they all rose in a body and led Jesus before 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 →