Psalms 119:78 · KJV
“Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: {but} I will meditate in thy precepts.”
— Psalms 119:78
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law {is} my delight.
Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
Psalms 119 — Context
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. {for...: Heb. to comfort me}
77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law {is} my delight.
78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: {but} I will meditate in thy precepts.
79Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
Cross References
John 15:25
But {this cometh to pass}, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
1 Peter 2:20
For what glory {is it}, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer {for it}, ye take it patiently, this {is} acceptable with God. {acceptable: or, thank}
Psalms 25:3
Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
Psalms 119:23
Princes also did sit {and} speak against me: {but} thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Psalms 119:51
The proud have had me greatly in derision: {yet} have I not declined from thy law.
Psalms 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net {in} a pit, {which} without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalms 119:85-86
The proud have digged pits for me, which {are} not after thy law.
Psalms 109:3
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.