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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:78 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 119:78 |
King James |
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| but I . . . meditate in thy precepts--and so shall not be "ashamed," that is, put to shame (Psa 119:80). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Let the proud be ashamed - Referring here to his enemies, who appear to have been in the higher ranks of life, or to have been those who prided themselves on their wealth, their station, or their influence. See the notes at Psa 119:51. The psalmist asks here that they might be confounded or put to shame; that is, that they might fail of accomplishing their purposes in regard to him. See Psa 25:2-3, notes; Job 6:20, note.
For they dealt perversely with me - They were not honest; they deceived me; they took advantage of me; they were not true to their professions of friendship. Compare the notes at Isa 59:3; notes at Job 8:3; notes at Job 34:12.
Without a cause - Hebrew, "by a lie." That is, They have been guilty of falsehood in their charges or accusations against me. I have given them no occasion for such treatment, and their conduct is based on an entire misrepresentation. See the notes at Joh 15:25.
But I will meditate in thy precepts - See the notes at Psa 1:2. I will not be diverted from thee, from thy law, from thy service, by all that man can do to me; by all the false charges which the enemies of religion may bring against me; by all the contempt or persecution that I may suffer for my attachment to thee. See Psa 119:23, note; Psa 119:69, note. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Let the proud be ashamed - To reduce a proud man to shame, is to humble him indeed. Let them be confounded. Without cause - without any colourable pretext, have they persecuted me. |
80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.