Psalms 119:161

In 11 translations

BSB

Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.

KJV

Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

WEB

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

ASV

Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy words.

LSV

[SHIN] Princes have pursued me without cause, || And my heart was afraid because of Your words.

YLT

[Shin.] Princes have pursued me without cause, And because of Thy words was my heart afraid.

DBY

SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

DRC118:161

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

GNV

SCHIN. Princes haue persecuted mee without cause, but mine heart stood in awe of thy wordes.

JPS

SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of Thy words.

LXXE118:161

Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of thy words.

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WLC

שָׂ֭רִים רְדָפ֣וּנִי חִנָּ֑ם ומדבריך פָּחַ֥ד לִבִּֽי׃Read aloud as (qere): וּ֝מִדְּבָרְךָ֗

LXX-Br118:161

Ἄρχοντες κατεδίωξάν με δωρεὰν, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων σου ἐδειλίασεν ἡ καρδία μου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Samuel 24:9–15and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’? Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to…
• Psalms 119:157Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
• 1 Samuel 26:18And he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?
• Isaiah 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
• Psalms 4:4Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
• John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
• Psalms 119:23Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
• Job 31:23For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
• Genesis 39:9No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
• Jeremiah 36:23–25And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire. Yet in hearing all these…
• Nehemiah 5:15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.
• 1 Samuel 21:15Am I in need of madmen, that you have brought this man to rave in my presence? Must this man come into my house?”
• 2 Kings 22:19because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn…
• Genesis 42:18and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

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