God’s Word Translation
Psalms 119:85
85Arrogant people have dug pits to trap me in defiance of your teachings.
Psalms 119:85 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
- New International Version (NIV)The arrogant dig pits to trap me, contrary to your law.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The proud have dug pits for me, Which is not according to Your law.
Context of Psalms 119:85
83Although I have become like a shriveled and dried out wineskin, I have not forgotten your laws. 84What is left of my life? When will you bring those who persecute me to justice? Arrogant people have dug pits to trap me in defiance of your teachings. 86(All your commandments are reliable.) Those people persecute me with lies. Help me! 87They almost wiped me off ⌞the face of⌟ the earth. But I did not abandon your guiding principles.
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כָּֽרוּ־לִ֣י זֵדִ֣ים שִׁיח֑וֹת אֲ֝שֶׁ֗ר לֹ֣א כְתוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:85
- Psalms 119:78Let arrogant people be put to shame because they lied about me, ⌞yet⌟ I reflect on your guiding principles.
- Psalms 7:15He digs a pit and shovels it out. Then he falls into the hole that he made ⌞for others⌟.
- Psalms 35:7For no reason they hid their net in a pit. For no reason they dug the pit ⌞to trap me⌟.
- Psalms 36:11Do not let the feet of arrogant people step on me or the hands of wicked people push me away.
- Proverbs 16:27A worthless person plots trouble, and his speech is like a burning fire.
- Jeremiah 18:20Good should not be paid back with evil. They dig a pit to take my life. Remember how I stood in your presence and pleaded for them in order to turn your anger away from them.
- Psalms 58:1Do you rulers really give fair verdicts? Do you judge Adam’s descendants fairly?
Commentaries on Psalms 119:85
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 85The proud have digged pits - The Vulgate, Septuagint, Ethiopic, and Arabic, translate this verse thus: "They have recited to me unholy fables, which are not according to thy law." They wish us to receive their system of idolatry, and the tales concerning their gods; but these are not according to thy law. The Anglo-Saxon is the same: They quothed me the unrightwise spells; but no so so law thine.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 85The proud - Those in high life, or of exalted rank. See the notes at Psalm 119:51. Have digged pits for me - See the notes at Psalm 7:15. Compare Psalm 35:7; Psalm 57:6; Psalm 94:13. Which are not after thy law - The word which here refers not to the pits, but to the proud. They who have done this are people who do not regard thy commands; people who are open and public offenders. It is that class of people with whom I have to contend - inert who set at…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 81-88Verses 81-88 The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet faith must not. His affliction was great. He was become like a leathern bottle, which, if hung up in the smoke, is dried and shrivelled up. We must ever be mindful of God's statutes. The days of the believer's mourning shall be ended; they are but for a…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 85-88God's word is trustworthy. This contrasts with the lies of the enemies who hunt the psalmist without reason (see Psalm 119:78).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 84-8784-87. The shortness of my life requires that the relief afforded to me from mine enemies should be speedy.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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