Psalms 119:21
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
In Context
20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
22Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.
Cross References
Exodus 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 28:15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
Nehemiah 9:16“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
Job 40:11Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
Psalms 119:78Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will 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 →