Psalms 119:78

He asks that the arrogant who wronged him be put to shame, while he himself responds by meditating on God's precepts. He answers persecution with prayer and the word, not retaliation.

Cross-references · 17

• Ps 119:23Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
• 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 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.’
• Ps 119:51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
• 1 Sam 26:18He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
• 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 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 7:3–5Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
• Ps 1:2but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
• 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.
• Ps 119:21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
• 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 119:85–86The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
• Ps 109:3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
• 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 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

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