Psalm 119:23 {118:23}
Good News Translation
The rulers meet and plot against me, but I will study your teachings.

New Revised Standard Version
Even though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

Contemporary English Version
I keep thinking about your teachings, LORD, even if rulers plot against me.

New American Bible
Though princes meet and talk against me, your servant meditates on your statutes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

princes

Psalm 2:1,2 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

1 Samuel 20:31 For as long as the son of Isai liveth upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and fetch him to me: for he is the son of death.

1 Samuel 22:7-13 He said to his servants that stood about him: Hear me now, ye sons of Jemini: will the son of Isai give every one of you fields, and vineyards, and make you all tribunes, and centurions: . . .

Luke 22:66 And as soon as it was day, the ancients of the people and the chief priests and scribes came together. And they brought him into their council saying: If thou be the Christ, tell us.

Luke 23:1,2,10,11 And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led him to Pilate. . . .

thy servant

Psalm 119:15 I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
22Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies. 23For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.24For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:15
I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.

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

Psalm 119:22
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