Psalm 119:150 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

They draw nigh that follow after wickedness; They are far from thy law.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

They draw nigh that follow after mischief: They are far from thy law.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

They draw near who follow after wrong thinking and persecute me with wickedness; they are far from Your law.

American Standard Version (1901)

They draw nigh that follow after wickedness; They are far from thy law.

Common English Bible

The people who love to plot wicked schemes are nearby, but they are so far from your Instruction!

Psalm 119:150 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:16

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night at the fords of the wilderness, but in any wise pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

Job 21:14

Yet they said unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have compassed me: The assembly of evil-doers have enclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalm 27:2

When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Psalm 50:17

Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee.

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scorners delight them in scorning, And fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 28:9

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

Isaiah 59:11

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgement, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Isaiah 59:14

And judgement is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

1 Samuel 23:16

And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.