Psalms 119:23
Princes also sat — against me they spoke, Thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
In Context
22Remove from me reproach and contempt, For Thy testimonies I have kept.
24Thy testimonies also [are] my delight, The men of my counsel!
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:31for all the days that the son of Jesse liveth on the ground thou art not established, thou and thy kingdom; and now, send and bring him unto me, for he [is] a son of death.'
Psalms 2:1Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
Psalms 119:161[Shin.] Princes have pursued me without cause, And because of Thy words was my heart afraid.
Luke 23:1And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to 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 →