Psalm 119:69
New International Version
Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart.

New Living Translation
Arrogant people smear me with lies, but in truth I obey your commandments with all my heart.

English Standard Version
The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;

Berean Standard Bible
Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

King James Bible
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

New King James Version
The proud have forged a lie against me, But I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.

New American Standard Bible
The arrogant have forged a lie against me; With all my heart I will comply with Your precepts.

NASB 1995
The arrogant have forged a lie against me; With all my heart I will observe Your precepts.

NASB 1977
The arrogant have forged a lie against me; With all my heart I will observe Thy precepts.

Legacy Standard Bible
The arrogant have smeared me with lying; With all my heart I will observe Your precepts.

Amplified Bible
The arrogant have forged a lie against me, But I will keep Your precepts with all my heart.

Christian Standard Bible
The arrogant have smeared me with lies, but I obey your precepts with all my heart.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The arrogant have smeared me with lies, but I obey Your precepts with all my heart.

American Standard Version
The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The evil of the proud is multiplied and I have kept your commandments with all my heart.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The injustice of the proud has been multiplied against me: but I will search out thy commandments with all my heart.

Contemporary English Version
My reputation is being ruined by conceited liars, but with all my heart I follow your teachings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.

English Revised Version
The proud have forged a lie against me: with my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Arrogant people have smeared me with lies, [yet] I obey your guiding principles with all my heart.

Good News Translation
The proud have told lies about me, but with all my heart I obey your instructions.

International Standard Version
The arrogant have accused me falsely; but I will observe your precepts wholeheartedly.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The proud have forged a lie against me; But I with my whole heart will keep Thy precepts.

Literal Standard Version
The proud have forged falsehood against me, | I keep Your precepts with the whole heart.

Majority Standard Bible
Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

New American Bible
The arrogant smear me with lies, but I keep your precepts with all my heart.

NET Bible
Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

New Revised Standard Version
The arrogant smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts.

New Heart English Bible
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Webster's Bible Translation
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

World English Bible
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Young's Literal Translation
Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
68You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes. 69Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart. 70Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.…

Cross References
Job 13:4
You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

Psalm 109:2
For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

Psalm 119:34
Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.

Psalm 119:56
This is my practice, for I obey Your precepts.


Treasury of Scripture

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.

proud

Psalm 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Psalm 109:2,3
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue…

Job 13:4
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

I will

Psalm 119:51,157
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law…

with my whole

Psalm 119:34,58
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart…

Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

James 1:8
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














(69) Have forged.--Rather, patched. The verb occurs twice besides (Job 13:4; Job 14:17). Gesenius compares the Greek, ????? ???????, and the Latin, suere dolos. Comp. also

"You praise yourself by laying defects of judgment to me;

but you patched up your excuses."

Antony and Cleopatra: Acts 2, Scene 2.

Verse 69. - The proud have forged a lie against me; literally, patched up a lie against me (comp. vers. 22, 23, 42, 78, etc.). But I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart (comp. vers. 2, 10, 34, etc.). "The connection of the clauses is - that all the craft and malice of his enemies should only lead him to obey God with a more undivided heart than ever" (Professor Alexander).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Though the arrogant
זֵדִ֑ים (zê·ḏîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2086: Insolent, presumptuous

have smeared
טָפְל֬וּ (ṭā·p̄ə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2950: To stick on as a, patch, to impute falsely

me with lies,
שֶׁ֣קֶר (še·qer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8267: Deception, disappointment, falsehood

I
אֲ֝נִ֗י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

will keep
אֱצֹּ֬ר (’ĕṣ·ṣōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5341: To watch, guard, keep

Your precepts
פִּקּוּדֶֽיךָ׃ (piq·qū·ḏe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6490: Appointed, a mandate

with all
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

my heart.
לֵ֤ב ׀ (lêḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre


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