Psalms 119:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

You rebuke the proud, the cursed, who stray from Your commandments.

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  • Ps 119:10 : 10 With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments.
  • Ps 119:118 : 118 You reject all those who stray from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 Though the LORD is high, yet He respects the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
  • Isa 2:11-12 : 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low:
  • Isa 10:12 : 12 Therefore, it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
  • Isa 42:24 : 24 Who gave Jacob for a plunder, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
  • Isa 43:28 : 28 Therefore, I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
  • Jer 44:9-9 : 9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. 11 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
  • Jer 44:16 : 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.
  • Jer 44:28-29 : 28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. 29 And this shall be a sign to you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
  • Ezek 28:2-9 : 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you: 4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gained riches for yourself, and gathered gold and silver into your treasures: 5 By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches: 6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have set your heart as the heart of God; 7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. 8 They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of those who are slain in the midst of the seas. 9 Will you still say before him who slays you, I am God? but you shall be a man, and no God, in the hand of him who slays you. 10 You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and His ways just; and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.
  • Dan 5:22-24 : 22 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this. 23 But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified. 24 Then the fingers of the hand were sent from Him, and this writing was written.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Luke 14:11 : 11 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled; and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
  • Luke 18:14 : 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled; and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.'
  • Jas 4:6 : 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
  • Ps 119:78 : 78 Let the proud be ashamed, for they treated me wrongfully without a cause; but I will meditate on Your precepts.
  • Ps 119:110 : 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not strayed from Your precepts.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Exod 18:11 : 11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.
  • Deut 27:15-26 : 15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. 16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. 18 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. 20 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife; because he uncovers his father's bed. And all the people shall say, Amen. 21 Cursed be he who lies with any kind of animal. And all the people shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 23 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen. 24 Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed be he who does not confirm all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Deut 28:15 : 15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:
  • Deut 30:19 : 19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live:
  • Neh 9:16 : 16 But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.
  • Neh 9:29 : 29 You testified against them, that You might bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted proudly and did not heed Your commandments but sinned against Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. And they shrugged their shoulders, stiffened their necks, and would not hear.
  • Job 40:11-12 : 11 Cast afar the rage of your wrath; and behold everyone that is proud, and abase him. 12 Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

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  • Ps 119:22-23
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    22Remove from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.

    23Princes also sit and speak against me, but Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

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    118You reject all those who stray from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.

    119You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross, therefore I love Your testimonies.

  • 51The proud have had me greatly in derision, yet I have not turned aside from Your law.

  • 78Let the proud be ashamed, for they treated me wrongfully without a cause; but I will meditate on Your precepts.

  • 69The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.

  • 4You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently.

  • Ps 119:66-67
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    66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe Your commandments.

    67Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your word.

  • Ps 119:10-12
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    10With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments.

    11Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

    12Blessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.

  • Ps 119:85-86
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    85The proud have dug pits for me, which is not according to Your law.

    86All Your commandments are faithful; they persecute me wrongfully; help me.

  • 39Turn away my reproach which I dread, for Your judgments are good.

  • 110The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not strayed from Your precepts.

  • 20The LORD shall send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand unto for to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, whereby you have forsaken Me.

  • 158I see the treacherous and am disgusted because they do not keep Your word.

  • 115Depart from me, you evildoers, for I will keep the commandments of my God.

  • 12Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;

  • Ps 19:11-13
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    11Moreover by them is your servant warned, and in keeping them there is great reward.

    12Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.

    13Keep your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. Then shall I be upright, and shall be innocent from the great transgression.

  • 6Then I shall not be ashamed, when I have respect to all Your commandments.

  • 22For those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • 161SCHIN. Princes persecute me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your word.

  • 65Give them sorrow of heart, Your curse upon them.

  • 1O LORD, do not rebuke me in your wrath, nor chasten me in your hot displeasure.

  • 17Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.

  • 17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

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    1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.

  • 11Cast afar the rage of your wrath; and behold everyone that is proud, and abase him.

  • 25But you have disregarded all my counsel, and would have none of my rebuke;

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    101I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word.

    102I have not departed from Your judgments, for You Yourself have taught me.

  • 1Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.

  • 15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:

  • 24Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in arrogant wrath.

  • 5The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

  • 143Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, yet Your commandments are my delights.

  • 24O LORD, correct me, but with justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

  • 1He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  • 12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • 22And if you have erred and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses,

  • 22But You have utterly rejected us; You are exceedingly angry with us.

  • 28Let them curse, but you bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice.

  • 151You are near, O LORD, and all Your commandments are truth.

  • 23O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and abundantly rewards the proud doer.

  • 20My soul breaks with longing for Your judgments at all times.