New English Translation
Psalms 119:51
51Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. Yet I do not turn aside from your law.
Psalms 119:51 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
- New International Version (NIV)The arrogant mock me unmercifully, but I do not turn from your law.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The proud have me in great derision, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.
Context of Psalms 119:51
49Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope. 50This is what comforts me in my trouble, for your promise revives me. Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. Yet I do not turn aside from your law. 52I remember your ancient regulations, O Lord, and console myself. 53Rage takes hold of me because of the wicked, those who reject your law.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:51 word by word
זֵ֭דִים הֱלִיצֻ֣נִי עַד־מְאֹ֑ד מִ֝תּֽוֹרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א נָטִֽיתִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:51
- Psalms 119:21You reprimand arrogant people. Those who stray from your commands are doomed.
- Psalms 123:3Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.
- Jeremiah 20:7Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.
- Luke 16:14The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.
- Luke 23:35The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
- Psalms 119:31I hold fast to your rules. O Lord, do not let me be ashamed!
- Psalms 44:18We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands.
- Job 23:11My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.
- Isaiah 38:3“Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Isaiah 42:4He will not grow dim or be crushed before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait in anticipation for his decrees.”
- Acts 20:23except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.
- Hebrews 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,
Commentaries on Psalms 119:51
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 51The proud have had me - We have been treated, not only with oppressive cruelty, but also with contempt, because we still professed to trust in thee, the living God, who because of our transgressions hadst been greatly displeased with us; jet we have not declined from thy law.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 51The proud have had me greatly in derision - Those of rank; those in high life: perhaps, as we should say, the frivolous and fashionable world. They have ridiculed me; they have held me up to contempt for my scruples, my seriousness, my conscientiousness, my unwillingness to mingle with them in the pursuits, the pastimes, the frivolities of life. It is now no new thing to be held in contempt by the “proud” and the frivolous, on account of serious piety; to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 49-56Verses 49-56 Those that make God's promises their portion, may with humble boldness make them their plea. He that by his Spirit works faith in us, will work for us. The word of God speaks comfort in affliction. If, through grace, it makes us holy, there is enough in it to make us easy, in all conditions. Let us be certain we have the Divine law for what we believe, and then let not scoffers prevail upon us to decline from it. God's judgments of old…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 49-56Zayin (ז) is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. The psalmist asks God to remember his word as the psalmist also remembers God’s word and his name. Remembrance expresses devotion.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 49-5149-51. Resting on the promises consoles under affliction and the tauntings of the insolent. upon which--rather, "Remember Thy word unto Thy servant, because," &c. So the Hebrew requires [Hengstenberg].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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