Psalm 119:161 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶¹ Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶¹ Princes have persecuted me without a cause: But my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶¹ Princes pursue and persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your words [dreading violation of them far more than the force of prince or potentate]. [I Sam. 24:11, 14; 26:18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶¹ Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy words.

Common English Bible

¹⁶¹ Rulers oppress me without cause, but my heart honors what you’ve said.

Psalm 119:161 Cross References

Genesis 39:9

He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Job 31:23

For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

Psalm 119:157

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, yet I do not swerve from your decrees.

Psalm 119:23

Even though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

Psalm 4:4

When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit who trembles at my word.

John 15:25

It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

1 Samuel 21:15

Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”

1 Samuel 26:18

And he added, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What guilt is on my hands?