KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 119:157–158
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Psalms 119:157
157Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
157Many are my persecutors, and mine enemies: yet doe I not decline from thy testimonies.
Psalms 119:158
158I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
158I beheld the transgressours, and was grieued: because they kept not thy word.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:157
A great number; numerous persons or things.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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persecutors
Persons who pursue, oppress, or vex others unjustly, especially for their faith.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To turn aside, bend downward, refuse, or fall away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604 · Skeat 1893
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testimonies
Witnesses, records, declarations, or divine commands that bear witness.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:158
Saw, looked upon, observed, or regarded.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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transgressors
Persons who pass beyond a command or boundary, or violate a law.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Pained; afflicted; suffering sorrow.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Retained, guarded, observed, or preserved.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 157
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Open the full verse study58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
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Open the full verse study51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
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Open the full verse study23Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
24But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
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Open the full verse study4He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
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Open the full verse study9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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Open the full verse study11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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Open the full verse study27For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
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Open the full verse study9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
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Open the full verse study10All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them.
11They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
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Open the full verse study110The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
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Open the full verse study12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
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Open the full verse study16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
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Open the full verse study19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
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Open the full verse study1LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
2Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
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Open the full verse study17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
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Open the full verse study2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
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Open the full verse study47¶ And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
From verse 158
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Open the full verse study53Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
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Open the full verse study21Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
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Open the full verse study136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
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Open the full verse study4And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
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Open the full verse study5And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
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