Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in 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.
A Conservative Version
Let the proud be put to shame, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on thy 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.
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
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Cross References
1 Samuel 24:10-12
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Jehovah had given thee this day into my hand in the cave; and they bade me kill thee; but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 24:17
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
1 Samuel 26:18
And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?
Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psalm 7:3-5
Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;
Psalm 25:3
Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.
Psalm 35:7
For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit; without cause they have digged it for my soul.
Psalm 35:26
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine adversity; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Psalm 69:4
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
Psalm 109:3
And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause.
Psalm 119:21
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, who wander from thy commandments.
Psalm 119:23
Princes also did sit and talk together against me: thy servant doth meditate in thy statutes.
Psalm 119:51
The proud have derided me beyond measure: I have not declined from thy law.
Psalm 119:85-86
The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to thy law.
Jeremiah 50:32
and the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; yea, I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that are round about him.
John 15:25
But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.
1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is it, if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear it? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear it, this is acceptable with God.