Psalms 119:22

The psalmist asks God to remove reproach and contempt because he has kept His testimonies. It matters because faithfulness to God's word can invite scorn yet rests its case before God.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
• Ps 119:39Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
• 1 Pet 2:20For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
• 1 Pet 4:14–16If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
• 1 Pet 3:16–17having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
• Ps 119:42So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.
• 2 Sam 16:7–8Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!
• Ps 37:3Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
• 1 Sam 25:39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
• Ps 123:3–4Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
• Job 16:20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
• Ps 68:19–20Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
• Ps 68:9–11You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
• Ps 37:6he will make your righteousness go out as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
• 1 Sam 25:10Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
• Ps 42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
• Heb 13:13Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
• Job 19:2–3“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

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