Psalm 119:78
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 Standard Bible
May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.

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.

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.

Legacy Standard Bible
May the arrogant be ashamed, for they wrong me with lying; But I shall muse on Your 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.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Let the evil shall be ashamed, for by evil they humbled me, and I have meditated in your commandments.

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

Contemporary English Version
Put down those proud people who hurt me with their lies, because I have chosen to study your teachings.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Literal Standard Version
The proud are ashamed, | For [with] falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate on Your precepts.

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

New American Bible
Shame the proud for leading me astray with falsehood, that I may study your testimonies.

NET Bible
May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me! But I meditate on your precepts.

New Revised Standard Version
Let the arrogant be put to shame, because they have subverted me with guile; as for me, I will 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.

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.

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

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
77May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight. 78May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts. 79May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies.…

Cross References
Psalm 119:15
I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

Psalm 119:79
May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies.

Psalm 119:86
All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause--help me!

Jeremiah 50:32
The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him."


Treasury of Scripture

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

the proud

Psalm 119:21,51,85
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments…

Psalm 35:26
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

without

Psalm 119:86
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

Psalm 7:3-5
O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; …

Psalm 25:3
Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

but I will

Psalm 119:23
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














(78) Dealt.--Better, wronged me; literally, bent me.

Verse 78. - Let the proud be ashamed; i.e. put them to shame (comp. Psalm 35:4, 26; Psalm 40:14; Psalm 70:2; Psalm 83:17, etc.). For they dealt perversely with me without a cause; rather, for with lies they subvert me (comp. ver. 69). But I will meditate in thy precepts. Repeated from ver. 15.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
May the arrogant
זֵ֭דִים (zê·ḏîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2086: Insolent, presumptuous

be put to shame
יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ (yê·ḇō·šū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 954: To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed

for
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

subverting me
עִוְּת֑וּנִי (‘iw·wə·ṯū·nî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural | first person common singular
Strong's 5791: To be bent or crooked

with a lie;
שֶׁ֣קֶר (še·qer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8267: Deception, disappointment, falsehood

I
אֲ֝נִ֗י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

will meditate
אָשִׂ֥יחַ (’ā·śî·aḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7878: To muse, complain, talk (of)

on Your precepts.
בְּפִקּוּדֶֽיךָ׃ (bə·p̄iq·qū·ḏe·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6490: Appointed, a mandate


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