Psalms 119:161
Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
BSB
ASV
Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy words.
KJV
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Isaiah 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles…
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For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit,…
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have…
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Psalms 4:4Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
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“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
ש, SCHIN.--The Twenty-first Part. SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause,....
Instead of fearing his persecutors, he fears God's Word alone (Lu 12:4, 5). The Jews inscribe in the first page of the great Bible (Ge 28:17), "How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"
