Psalms 119:161
159 Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
160 The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
162 I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.
163 I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
- KJV
- Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
- WEB
- Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
- ASV
- Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy words.
- DARBY
- SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
- BLB
- Princes may pursue me without cause, and of Your word my heart was afraid.
- ÅB
- Fyrster forfulgte meg uten årsak, men mitt hjerte fryktet for dine ord.
- OTB
- Fyrster forfølger meg uten grunn,
Men mitt hjerte står i ærefrykt for dine ord. - B1930
- Fyrster forfulgte mig uten årsak, men mitt hjerte fryktet for dine ord.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 119:157
Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
Read in contextIsaiah 66:2
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
Read in context1 Samuel 26:18
And he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?
Read in context1 Samuel 24:9–15
and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
Read in contextJohn 15:25
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
Read in contextPsalms 4:4
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
Read in contextPsalms 119:23
Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
Read in contextJob 31:23
For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
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