Psalms 119:158
156 Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.
- KJV
- I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
- WEB
- I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.
- ASV
- I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved, Because they observe not thy word.
- DARBY
- I beheld them that deal treacherously, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
- BLB
- I have seen those acting treacherously, and I felt loathing, because they have not kept Your word.
- ÅB
- Jeg så de troløse og vemmedes, dem som ikke holdt ditt ord.
- OTB
- Jeg ser de troløse og føler forakt,
Fordi de ikke holder ditt ord. - B1930
- Jeg så de troløse og vemmedes, dem som ikke holdt ditt ord.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 119:53
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Read in contextPsalms 139:21
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Read in contextPsalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Read in contextEzekiel 9:4
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Read in contextMark 3:5
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
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