Psalms 119:23
Even rulers have taken their seat, against me, have talked, Thy servant, will still meditate in thy statutes.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
In Context
22Roll from off me, reproach and contempt, For, thy testimonies, have I observed.
24Yea, thy testimonies, are my dear delight, My counsellors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:31For, as long as, the son of Jesse, liveth on the ground, thou wilt not be established, thou nor thy kingdom, Now, therefore, send and fetch him unto me, for, doomed to death, is he!
Psalms 2:1Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?
Psalms 119:161[SHIN.] Rulers, have persecuted me, without cause, But, of thy word, hath my heart stood in awe.
Luke 23:1And one and all the throng of them, arising, led him unto 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 →