Psalm 119:85 {118:85}
Good News Translation
The proud, who do not obey your law, have dug pits to trap me.

New Revised Standard Version
The arrogant have dug pitfalls for me; they flout your law.

Contemporary English Version
Those proud people reject your teachings, and they dig pits for me to fall in.

New American Bible
The arrogant have dug pits for me; defying your law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.

the proud.

Psalm 119:78 Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.

Psalm 7:15 He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.

Psalm 35:7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.

Psalm 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the sinner move me.

Proverbs 16:27 The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.

Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

which

Psalm 58:1,2 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. [2] If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
84How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? 85The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.86All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.…
Cross References
Psalm 7:15
He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.

Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.

Psalm 57:6
They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.

Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet.

Psalm 119:84
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