Psalms 119:51
The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
BSB
ASV
The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet have I not swerved from thy law.
KJV
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
HOMILY ON PSALM 118 (367)
We are instructed in all this, but the prophet has already experienced it. He says, "This hope has consoled me in my humility, for your word has given me life." The hope is the hope that God has implanted in him. It has consoled him "in his humility," that is, when he is spurned, mocked, vexed by injustices, dishonored by insults, for he knows that he is soldiering through his present trials. But the hope instilled by the Lord consoles him in these wars endured in his weakness, and he is lent life by the utterances of God.
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].
The walk8
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.
Through
Job 23:11My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
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Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse…
But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
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Psalms 119:157Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
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Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
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Psalms 44:18Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
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Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
Through
Jeremiah 20:7You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
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If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of…
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and…
