KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 119:85–86
A connected passage, with study helps kept beside the verses they explain.
Psalms 119:85
85The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
85The proud haue digged pittes for me: which are not after thy law.
Psalms 119:86
86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
86†All thy commaundements are faithfull: they persecute me wrongfully; helpe thou me.
- Heb. faithfulnesse.
ENSURE CONTEXTUALIZATION
Add surrounding context
Extend this passage one adjacent verse at a time.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS VERSE?
Ask a Local Pastor
Find a nearby pastor committed to holding fast the faithful word, then use the public contact information to begin a real conversation. Nothing is sent or stored for you.
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:85
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)
Dug; opened, excavated, or turned up the earth.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A rule, command, or body of commands established by authority; especially God's commandments or the law given through Moses, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:86
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
commandments
Authoritative commands, laws, or precepts; especially commands given by God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Steadfast in truth, duty, promise, or allegiance; trustworthy and true.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Trouble, afflict, or pursue after; to pursue, harass, or oppress.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Skeat 1893
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
wrongfully
Unjustly; in a manner contrary to the moral law or to justice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Aid, assistance, or relief; as a verb, to aid, assist, or support.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE
Cross References
Choose how far to extend the reference list.
From verse 85
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
- Study this reference
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.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study15He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study11Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study1DO ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
From verse 86
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study5But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study26Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
- Study this reference
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.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study138Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study151Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
5I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
6Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study9Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study19But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.
4They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
- Study this reference
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:
2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3O 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.
CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
Still have questions? Ask a Local Pastor.
See public contact information for nearby churches. You decide whether to call, email, or visit.