Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
- BSB May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
- NKJV Let the proud be ashamed, For they treated me wrongfully with falsehood; But I will meditate on Your precepts.
- NASB May the arrogant be put to shame, because they lead me astray with a lie; But I shall meditate on Your precepts.
- NLT Bring disgrace upon the arrogant people who lied about me; meanwhile, I will concentrate on your commandments.
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- Ps 119:51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
- 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.
- Ps 119:23Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
- Ps 25:3Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
- John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
- 1 Sam 24:10–12Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.
- Ps 69:4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
- Ps 35:26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
- Ps 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
- Ps 109:3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
- Ps 119:85–86The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
- Ps 119:21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
- Ps 7:3–5Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
- 1 Sam 24:17He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.
- 1 Sam 26:18He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
- Jer 50:32The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are around him.”
- Ps 1:2but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
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