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Psalms 119:78
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Psalms 119:78
78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
78Let the proud be ashamed, for they dealt peruersly with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:78
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Having an unduly high opinion of oneself; haughty or self-exalting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To deal: to distribute, allot, act toward another, or conduct a matter.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
perversely
Wrongfully, stubbornly, or in a manner contrary to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To consider deeply, dwell upon in thought, or purpose in the mind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Commands, rules, or authoritative instructions.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study20For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
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Open the full verse study25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
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Open the full verse study23Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
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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 study3Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
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Open the full verse study10Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the Lord’s anointed.
11Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
12The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
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Open the full verse study17And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
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Open the full verse study18And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
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Open the full verse study32And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
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Open the full verse study2But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
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Open the full verse study3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
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Open the full verse study21Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
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Open the full verse study85The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
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Open the full verse study26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
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Open the full verse study7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
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Open the full verse study4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
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Open the full verse study3O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
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