Psalms 119:78

In 11 translations

BSB

May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.

KJV

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

WEB

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

ASV

Let the proud be put to shame; for they have overthrown me wrongfully: But I will meditate on thy precepts.

LSV

The proud are ashamed, || For [with] falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate on Your precepts.

YLT

Ashamed are the proud, For [with] falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts.

DBY

Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts.

DRC118:78

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

GNV

Let the proude be ashamed: for they haue dealt wickedly and falsely with me: but I meditate in thy precepts.

JPS

Let the proud be put to shame, for they have distorted my cause with falsehood; but I will meditate in Thy precepts.

LXXE118:78

Let the proud be ashamed; for they transgressed against me unjustly: but I will meditate in thy commandments.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ זֵ֭דִים כִּי־שֶׁ֣קֶר עִוְּת֑וּנִי אֲ֝נִ֗י אָשִׂ֥יחַ בְּפִקּוּדֶֽיךָ׃

LXX-Br118:78

Αἰσχυνθήτωσαν ὑπερήφανοι, ὅτι ἀδίκως ἠνόμησαν εἰς ἐμὲ, ἐγὼ δὲ ἀδολεσχήσω ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 119:51The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
• 1 Peter 2:20How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.
• Psalms 25:3Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who are faithless without cause will be disgraced.
• 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.
• Psalms 69:4Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
• 1 Samuel 24:10–12Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the…
• Psalms 7:3–5O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands, if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause, then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the…
• Jeremiah 50:32The 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.”
• Psalms 119:21You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
• 1 Samuel 26:18And he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?
• Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
• 1 Samuel 24:17and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.
• Psalms 109:3They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
• Psalms 119:85–86The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law. All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!
• Psalms 35:26May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

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