Psalm 119:61 {118:61}
Good News Translation
The wicked have laid a trap for me, but I do not forget your law.

New Revised Standard Version
Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget your law.

Contemporary English Version
Evil people may set a trap, but I obey your Law.

New American Bible
Though the snares of the wicked surround me, your law I do not forget.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

the bands.

Psalm 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies.

Psalm 3:1 The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom. [2] Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me.

1 Samuel 30:3-5 So when David and his men came to the city, and found it burnt with fire, and that their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives, . . .

Job 1:17 And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them; moreover, they have slain the servants with the sword: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Hosea 6:9 And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out of Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.

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Psalm 119:176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.

1 Samuel 24:9-11 And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say: David seeketh thy hurt? . . .

1 Samuel 26:9-11 And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and shall be guiltless? . . .

Proverbs 24:29 Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.

Romans 12:17-21 To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
60I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments. 61The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.62I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification.…
Cross References
Job 36:8
And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

Psalm 44:17
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.

Psalm 119:60
I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments.

Psalm 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

Psalm 119:141
I am very young and despised; but I forget not thy justifications.

Psalm 140:5
The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Proverbs 3:1
For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.

Psalm 119:60
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