Psalms 119:158 · KJV
“I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.”
— Psalms 119:158
Many {are} my persecutors and mine enemies; {yet} do I not decline from thy testimonies.
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Psalms 119 — Context
Great {are} thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. {Great: or, Many}
157Many {are} my persecutors and mine enemies; {yet} do I not decline from thy testimonies.
158I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
159Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
160Thy word {is} true {from} the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments {endureth} for ever. {Thy word...: Heb. The beginning of thy word is true}
Cross References
Psalms 139:21
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Psalms 119:53
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Ezekiel 9:4
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. {set a mark: Heb. mark a mark}
Mark 3:5
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched {it} out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. {hardness: or, blindness}