Psalms 119:51
The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
In Context
50This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
52I remember your ordinances of old, LORD, and have comforted myself.
Cross References
Job 23:11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
Psalms 119:21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
Psalms 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Isaiah 42:4He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice on the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”
Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:51
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. Here is David's experience of benefit by the word. 1. As a means of his sanctification: " Thy word has quickened me. It made me alive when I was dead in sin; it has many a time made me lively when I was dead in duty; it has quickened me to that which is good when I was backward and averse to it, and it has quickened me in that which is good when I was cold and indifferent." 2. Therefore as a means of his consolation when he was in affliction… Read the whole commentary →