Psalm 119:161 - Revised Standard Version

¹⁶¹ Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy 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 Tagairtí Cros

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 can 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 you have rent 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 upon the people, and took from them food and wine, 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, but I do not swerve from thy testimonies.

Psalm 119:23

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

Psalm 4:4

Be angry, but sin not; commune with your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Isaiah 66:2

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

John 15:25

It is to fulfil 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 said, “Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What guilt is on my hands?