Psalm 119:119 {118:119}
Good News Translation
You treat all the wicked like rubbish, and so I love your instructions.

New Revised Standard Version
All the wicked of the earth you count as dross; therefore I love your decrees.

Contemporary English Version
As far as you are concerned, evil people are garbage, and so I follow your rules.

New American Bible
Like dross you regard all the wicked on earth; therefore I love your testimonies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.

thou.

puttest away.

1 Samuel 15:23 Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being king.

Jeremiah 6:30 Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

Ezekiel 22:18-22 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver. . . .

Malachi 3:2,3 And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb: . . .

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Matthew 13:40-42,49,50 Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world. . . .

therefore

Psalm 119:111,126-128 I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are the joy of my heart. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
118Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust. 119I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.120Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.…
Cross References
Psalm 2:11
Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.

Psalm 119:47
I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.

Isaiah 1:22
Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.

Isaiah 1:25
And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.

Jeremiah 6:30
Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.

Ezekiel 22:19
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all turned into dross, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem.

Psalm 119:118
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