Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Let the proud be put to shame, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on thy precepts.
New American Standard Bible
But I shall
King James Version
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Holman Bible
for slandering me with lies;
I will meditate on Your precepts.
International Standard Version
May the arrogant become ashamed, because they have subverted me with deceit; as for me, I will meditate on 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.
Amplified
Let the arrogant be ashamed and humiliated, for they sabotage me with a lie;
But I will meditate on Your precepts.
Bible in Basic English
Let the men of pride be shamed; because they have falsely given decision against me; but I will give thought to your orders.
Darby Translation
Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts.
Julia Smith Translation
The proud shall be ashamed, for they acted perversely to me without cause: I will meditate in thy charges
King James 2000
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let the arrogant be put to shame, because they have wronged me [with] lies. As for me, I will meditate on your precepts.
Modern King James verseion
Let the proud be ashamed; for they perverted my cause with lying; I will think on Your Commandments.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let the proud be confounded, for they go wickedly about to destroy me; but I will be occupied in thy commandments.
NET Bible
May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me! But I meditate on your precepts.
New Heart English Bible
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
The Emphasized Bible
Let insolent men, be ashamed, because, by means of falsehood, they have dealt with me perversely, I, will meditate in thy precepts.
Webster
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
World English Bible
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:78
Verse Info
Context Readings
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:10-12
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that LORD had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave. And some bade me kill thee, but [I] spared thee. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is LORD's anoi
1 Samuel 24:17
And he said to David, Thou are more righteous than I, for thou have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to thee evil.
1 Samuel 26:18
And he said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?
Psalm 1:2
but his delight is in the law of LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 7:3-5
O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands,
Psalm 25:3
Yea, none who wait for thee shall be put to shame. They shall be put to shame who deal treacherously without cause.
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
Psalm 35:26
Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
Psalm 69:4
Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. That which I took not away I have to restore.
Psalm 109:3
They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Psalm 119:21
Thou have rebuked the proud, who are cursed, who wander from thy commandments.
Psalm 119:23
Rulers also sat and talked against me, [but] thy servant meditated on thy statutes.
Psalm 119:51
The proud have had me greatly in derision, [yet] I have not swerved from thy law.
Psalm 119:85-86
The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to thy law.
Jeremiah 50:32
And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him.
John 15:25
But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.
1 Peter 2:20
For what kind of credit is it, if, sinning and being beaten, ye will endure? But if, doing good and suffering, ye will endure, this is graciousness with God.