Psalm 119:157 {118:157}
Good News Translation
I have many enemies and oppressors, but I do not fail to obey your laws.

New Revised Standard Version
Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, yet I do not swerve from your decrees.

Contemporary English Version
I have a lot of brutal enemies, but still I never turn from your laws.

New American Bible
Though my persecutors and foes are many, I do not turn from your testimonies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies.

many

Psalm 3:1,2 The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom. [2] Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me. . . .

Psalm 22:12,16 Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me. . . .

Psalm 25:19 Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

Psalm 56:2 My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.

Psalm 118:10-12 All nations compassed me about; and, in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them. . . .

Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

Matthew 26:47 As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the ancients of the people.

Acts 4:27 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

yet do I

Psalm 119:51,110 The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law. . . .

Psalm 44:17 At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.

Job 17:9 And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 23:11 My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.

Isaiah 42:4 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law.

Acts 20:23,24 Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
156Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy judgment. 157Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies.158I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word.…
Cross References
Psalm 7:1
The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of Chusi, the son of Jemini. [2] O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

Psalm 44:18
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.

Psalm 119:51
The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.

Psalm 119:86
All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.

Psalm 119:161
Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words.

Psalm 119:156
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