Psalm 119:21 {118:21}
Good News Translation
You reprimand the proud; cursed are those who disobey your commands.

New Revised Standard Version
You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments;

Contemporary English Version
You punish those boastful, worthless nobodies who turn from your commands.

New American Bible
With a curse you rebuke the proud who stray from your commandments.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.

rebuked

Psalm 119:78 Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.

Psalm 138:6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

Exodus 10:3 Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.

Exodus 18:11 Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.

Job 40:11,12 Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him. . . .

Isaiah 2:11,12 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. . . .

Isaiah 10:12 And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.

Ezekiel 28:2-10 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God. . . .

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Daniel 5:22-24 Thou also, his son, O Baltasar, hast not humbled thy heart, whereas thou knewest all these things: . . .

Malachi 4:1 For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.

Luke 14:11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Luke 18:14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

James 4:6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

cursed

Psalm 119:10,110,118 With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments. . . .

Deuteronomy 27:15-26 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:15 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Nehemiah 9:16,29 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments. . . .

Isaiah 42:24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law.

Isaiah 43:28 And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to reproach.

Jeremiah 41:9-11,16 And the pit into which Ismahel cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he slew because of Godolias, is the same that king Asa made, for fear of Baasa the king of Israel: the same did Ismahel the son of Nathanias fill with them that were slain. . . .

Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (for it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree).

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
20My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times. 21Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.22Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:26
Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Psalm 9:5
Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Psalm 37:22
For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse him shall perish.

Psalm 68:30
Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:

Psalm 119:10
With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.

Psalm 119:118
Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust.

Psalm 119:20
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