Verse 161

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 26:18 : 18 He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?
  • Ps 119:23 : 23 Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
  • 1 Sam 24:9-9 : 9 David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?' 10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed. 11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it. 12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you. 13 As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you. 14 Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea? 15 May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand."
  • Gen 39:9 : 9 He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.
  • 1 Sam 21:15 : 15 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"
  • Ps 119:157 : 157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies.
  • Isa 66:2 : 2 For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be," says Yahweh: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
  • Jer 36:23-25 : 23 It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. 24 They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words. 25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them.
  • John 15:25 : 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
  • 2 Kgs 22:19 : 19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,' says Yahweh.
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Job 31:23 : 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.