Psalms 119:23
Princes also sat and talked against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
In Context
22Take away from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:31For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be stablished, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?
Psalms 119:161Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy words.
Luke 23:1And the 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 →