Psalms 119:23
Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
In Context
22Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.
24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:31For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”
Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Psalms 119:161Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
Luke 23:1The whole company of them rose up and brought him 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 →