Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause; but I will meditate on your precepts. New Living Translation Bring disgrace upon the arrogant people who lied about me; meanwhile, I will concentrate on your commandments. English Standard Version Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts. Berean Study Bible May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts. New American Standard Bible May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie; But I shall meditate on Your precepts. King James Bible Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. Christian Standard Bible Let the arrogant be put to shame for slandering me with lies; I will meditate on your precepts. Contemporary English Version Put down those proud people who hurt me with their lies, because I have chosen to study your teachings. Good News Translation May the proud be ashamed for falsely accusing me; as for me, I will meditate on your instructions. Holman Christian Standard Bible Let the arrogant be put to shame for slandering me with lies; I will meditate on Your precepts. International Standard Version May the arrogant become ashamed, because they have subverted me with deceit; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts. NET Bible May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me! But I meditate on your precepts. New Heart English Bible Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Let the evil shall be ashamed, for by evil they humbled me, and I have meditated in your commandments. GOD'S WORD® Translation Let arrogant people be put to shame because they lied about me, [yet] I reflect on your guiding principles. JPS Tanakh 1917 Let the proud be put to shame, for they have distorted my cause with falsehood; But I will meditate in Thy precepts. New American Standard 1977 May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie; But I shall meditate on Thy precepts. Jubilee Bible 2000 Let the proud be ashamed, for they dealt perversely with me without a cause, but I will meditate in thy precepts. King James 2000 Bible Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts. American King James Version Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts. American Standard Version Let the proud be put to shame; For they have overthrown me wrongfully: But I will meditate on thy precepts. Douay-Rheims Bible Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments. Darby Bible Translation Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts. English Revised Version Let the proud be ashamed; for they have overthrown me wrongfully: but I will meditate in thy precepts. Webster's Bible Translation Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. World English Bible Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts. Young's Literal Translation Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts. Study Bible Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet…77May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight. 78May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts. 79May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies.… Cross References Psalm 119:15 I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways. Psalm 119:79 May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies. Psalm 119:86 All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause--help me! Jeremiah 50:32 The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him." Treasury of Scripture Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts. the proud Psalm 119:21,51,85 You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from your … Psalm 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt… without Psalm 119:86 All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help you me. Psalm 7:3-5 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands… Psalm 25:3 Yes, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which … Psalm 35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which … Psalm 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: … Psalm 109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against … 1 Samuel 24:10-12,17 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered … 1 Samuel 26:18 And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for … John 15:25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is … 1 Peter 2:20 For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you … but I will Psalm 119:23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate … Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he … (78) Dealt.--Better, wronged me; literally, bent me. Verse 78. - Let the proud be ashamed; i.e. put them to shame (comp. Psalm 35:4, 26; Psalm 40:14; Psalm 70:2; Psalm 83:17, etc.). For they dealt perversely with me without a cause; rather, for with lies they subvert me (comp. ver. 69). But I will meditate in thy precepts. Repeated from ver. 15. Let the proud be ashamed,.... The same persons he before speaks of as accursed, who had him in derision, and forged a lie against him. Here he prays that they might be ashamed of their scoffs and jeers, of their lies and calumnies, the evils and injuries they had done him; that they might be brought to a sense of them, and repentance for them; when they would be ashamed of them in the best manner: or that they might be disappointed of their ends, in what they had done, and so be confounded and ashamed, as men are when they cannot gain their point; or be brought to shame and confusion eternally; |
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