Psalm 119:78 {118:78}
Good News Translation
May the proud be ashamed for falsely accusing me; as for me, I will meditate on your instructions.

New Revised Standard Version
Let the arrogant be put to shame, because they have subverted me with guile; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

Contemporary English Version
Put down those proud people who hurt me with their lies, because I have chosen to study your teachings.

New American Bible
Shame the proud for leading me astray with falsehood, that I may study your testimonies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the proud

Psalm 119:21,51,85 Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments. . . .

Psalm 35:26 Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.

without

Psalm 119:86 All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.

Psalm 7:3-5 O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands: . . .

Psalm 25:3 Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

Psalm 35:7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.

Psalm 69:4 They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

Psalm 109:3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.

1 Samuel 24:10-12,17 Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed. . . .

1 Samuel 26:18 And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?

John 15:25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

1 Peter 2:20 For what glory is it, if, committing sin and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently: this is thankworthy before God.

but I will

Psalm 119:23 For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

Psalm 1:2 But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation. 78Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.79Let them that fear thee turn to me: and they that know thy testimonies.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:15
I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.

Psalm 119:79
Let them that fear thee turn to me: and they that know thy testimonies.

Psalm 119:86
All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.

Jeremiah 50:32
And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall down, and there shall be none to lift him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

Psalm 119:77
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