Psalm 119:78

Yod

⁷⁷ May Your compassion come to me
so that I may live,
for Your instruction is my delight.
⁷⁸ Let the arrogant be put to shame
for slandering me with lies;
I will meditate on Your precepts.
⁷⁹ Let those who fear You,
those who know Your decrees, turn to me.

Meditate on Your Precepts

Put to Shame

Shamed

1 Samuel 24:10-12

You can see with your own eyes that the Lord handed you over to me today in the cave. Someone advised me to kill you, but I took pity on you and said: I won’t lift my hand against my lord, since he is the Lord’s anointed.

1 Samuel 24:17

and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.

1 Samuel 26:18

Then he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?

Psalm 1:2

Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,
and he meditates on it day and night.

Psalm 7:3-5

Yahweh my God, if I have done this,
if there is injustice on my hands,

Psalm 25:3

No one who waits for You
will be disgraced;
those who act treacherously without cause
will be disgraced.

Psalm 35:7

They hid their net for me without cause;
they dug a pit for me without cause.

Psalm 35:26

Let those who rejoice at my misfortune
be disgraced and humiliated;
let those who exalt themselves over me
be clothed with shame and reproach.

Psalm 69:4

Those who hate me without cause
are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me,
are powerful.
Though I did not steal, I must repay.

Psalm 109:3

They surround me with hateful words
and attack me without cause.

Psalm 119:21

You rebuke the proud,
the ones under a curse,
who wander from Your commands.

Psalm 119:23

Though princes sit together speaking against me,
Your servant will think about Your statutes;

Psalm 119:51

The arrogant constantly ridicule me,
but I do not turn away from Your instruction.

Psalm 119:85-86

The arrogant have dug pits for me;
they violate Your instruction.

Jeremiah 50:32

The arrogant will stumble and fall
with no one to pick him up.
I will set fire to his cities,
and it will consume everything around him.”

John 15:25

But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason.

1 Peter 2:20

For what credit is there if you sin and are punished, and you endure it? But when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, this brings favor with God.