Psalm 119:161 {118:161}
Good News Translation
Powerful people attack me unjustly, but I respect your law.

New Revised Standard Version
Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

Contemporary English Version
Rulers are cruel to me for no reason. But with all my heart I respect your words,

New American Bible
Princes persecute me without reason, but my heart reveres only your word.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words.

princes

Psalm 119:23,157 For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications. . . .

1 Samuel 24:9-14 And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say: David seeketh thy hurt? . . .

1 Samuel 26:18 And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?

John 15:25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

my heart

Psalm 4:4 Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your beds.

Genesis 39:9 Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?

Genesis 42:18 And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

2 Kings 22:19 And thy heart hath been moved to fear, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, hearing the words against this place, and the inhabitants thereof, to wit, that they should become a wonder and a curse: and thou hast rent thy garments, and wept before me; I also have heard thee; saith the Lord.

Nehemiah 5:15 But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

Job 31:23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.

Isaiah 66:2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

Jeremiah 36:23-25 And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it with the penknife, and he cast it into the fire, that was upon the hearth, till all the volume was consumed with the fire that was on the hearth. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
160The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever. 161Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words.162I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:11
Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my hand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my hand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand, nor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait for my life, to take it away.

1 Samuel 26:18
And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?

Psalm 119:23
For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

Psalm 119:86
All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.

Psalm 119:120
Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.

Psalm 119:157
Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies.

Psalm 119:160
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