New English Translation
Psalms 119:22
22Spare me shame and humiliation, for I observe your rules.
Psalms 119:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
- New International Version (NIV)Remove from me their scorn and contempt, for I keep your statutes.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Take away from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Remove from me reproach and contempt, For I have kept Your testimonies.
Context of Psalms 119:22
20I desperately long to know your regulations at all times. 21You reprimand arrogant people. Those who stray from your commands are doomed. Spare me shame and humiliation, for I observe your rules. 23Though rulers plot and slander me, your servant meditates on your statutes. 24Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance. ד (Dalet)
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:22 word by word
גַּ֣ל מֵֽ֭עָלַי חֶרְפָּ֣ה וָב֑וּז כִּ֖י עֵדֹתֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:22
- Psalms 119:39Take away the insults that I dread! Indeed, your regulations are good.
- Psalms 39:8Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion! Do not make me the object of fools’ insults!
- Psalms 42:10My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 68:9O God, you cause abundant showers to fall on your chosen people. When they are tired, you sustain them,
- Psalms 123:3Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.
- 1 Samuel 25:10But Nabal responded to David’s servants, “Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!
- 2 Samuel 16:7As he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Leave! Leave! You man of bloodshed, you wicked man!
- Job 16:20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
- Job 19:2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
- Hebrews 13:13We must go out to him, then, outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced.
- Psalms 37:3Trust in the Lord and do what is right! Settle in the land and maintain your integrity!
- 1 Peter 2:20For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.
- 1 Peter 3:16Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.
- 1 Peter 4:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Remove from me reproach and contempt - Of these the captives in Babylon had a more than ordinary load.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Remove from me reproach and contempt - Show me thy favor, and let me not suffer in the estimation of mankind on account of my religion. Let me not be exposed to malicious charges; to accusations of hypocrisy, insincerity, and unfaithfulness on account of my religion. This “reproach and contempt” might arise from two sources; (1) on account of religion itself, or because he was a true friend of God; or (2) he may have been charged with hypocrisy and…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-24Verses 17-24 If God deals in strict justice with us, we all perish. We ought to spend our lives in his service; we shall find true life in keeping his word. Those that would see the wondrous things of God's law and gospel, must beg him to give them understanding, by the light of his Spirit. Believers feel themselves strangers on earth; they fear missing their way, and losing comfort by erring from God's commandments. Every sanctified soul hungers after…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-24Gimel (ג) is the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. Like a stranger in a hostile land, God's servant needs God's guidance.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 21-2421-24. God will rebuke those who despise His word and deliver His servants from their reproach, giving them boldness in and by His truth, even before the greatest men. DALETH. (Psa 119:25-32).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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