Psalm 119:78
Modern Translations
New International Version
May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause; but I will meditate on your precepts.

New Living Translation
Bring disgrace upon the arrogant people who lied about me; meanwhile, I will concentrate on your commandments.

English Standard Version
Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

Berean Study Bible
May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.

New American Standard Bible
May the arrogant be put to shame, because they lead me astray with a lie; But I shall meditate on Your precepts.

NASB 1995
May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie; But I shall meditate on Your precepts.

NASB 1977
May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie; But I shall meditate on Thy precepts.

Amplified Bible
Let the arrogant be ashamed and humiliated, for they sabotage me with a lie; But I will meditate on Your precepts.

Christian Standard Bible
Let the arrogant be put to shame for slandering me with lies; I will meditate on your precepts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let the arrogant be put to shame for slandering me with lies; 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.

Good News Translation
May the proud be ashamed for falsely accusing me; as for me, I will meditate on your instructions.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Let arrogant people be put to shame because they lied about me, [yet] I reflect on your guiding principles.

International Standard Version
May the arrogant become ashamed, because they have subverted me with deceit; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

NET Bible
May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me! But I meditate on your precepts.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

New King James Version
Let the proud be ashamed, For they treated me wrongfully with falsehood; But I will meditate on Your precepts.

King James 2000 Bible
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.

New Heart English Bible
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

World English Bible
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

American King James Version
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.

American Standard Version
Let the proud be put to shame; For they have overthrown me wrongfully: But I will meditate on thy precepts.

A Faithful Version
Let the proud be ashamed, for with guile they have wronged me; but I will meditate on Your precepts.

Darby Bible Translation
Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts.

English Revised Version
Let the proud be ashamed; for they have overthrown me wrongfully: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Let the proude be ashamed: for they haue dealt wickedly and falsely with me: but I meditate in thy precepts.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(119:6) Let the proude be confounded, for they haue falsly reported me: but I wyll study thy commaundementes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Let the proude be confounded, which handle so falsly agaynst me.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The proud are ashamed, "" For [with] falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate on Your precepts.

Young's Literal Translation
Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts.

Smith's Literal Translation
The proud shall be ashamed, for they acted perversely to me without cause: I will meditate in thy charges.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Let the arrogant be confounded, for unjustly they have done iniquity to me. But I will be trained in your commandments.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Let the evil shall be ashamed, for by evil they humbled me, and I have meditated in your commandments.

Lamsa Bible
Let the wicked be ashamed, for they have humbled me unjustly; but I have meditated in thy precepts.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Let the proud be put to shame, for they have distorted my cause with falsehood; But I will meditate in Thy precepts.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let the proud be ashamed; for they transgressed against me unjustly: but I will meditate in thy commandments.
















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