Psalm 119:119 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

All the wicked of the earth I count as dross; therefore I love your decrees.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love thy testimonies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You put away and count as dross all the wicked of the earth [for there is no true metal in them]; therefore I love Your testimonies.

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love thy testimonies.

Common English Bible

You dispose of all the wicked people on earth like waste— that’s why I love your laws.

Psalm 119:119 Cross References

Psalm 119:111

Your decrees are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:47

I find my delight in your commandments because I love them.

Isaiah 1:25

I will turn my hand against you; I will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.

Jeremiah 6:30

They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 7:23

Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you who behave lawlessly.’

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is no less a sin than divination, and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”