Psalms 119:70

King James Version (1611 Edition)

The proud haue forged a lie against me: but I will keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their hearts are hard and insensitive,but I delight in your instruction.

Hebrew Names Version
Their heart is as callous as the fat, But I delight in your law.

King James Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

English Standard Version
their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.

New Century Version
Those people have no feelings, but I love your teachings.

New English Translation
Their hearts are calloused, but I find delight in your law.

Amplified Bible
Their heart is insensitive like fat [their minds are dull and brutal], But I delight in Your law.

New American Standard Bible
Their heart is insensitive, like fat, But I delight in Your Law.

World English Bible
Their heart is as callous as the fat, But I delight in your law.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Their heart is fatte as grease: but my delite is in thy Lawe.

Legacy Standard Bible
Their heart is covered with fat,But I delight in Your law.

Berean Standard Bible
Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.

Contemporary English Version
Those liars have no sense, but I find happiness in your Law.

Complete Jewish Bible
Their hearts are as thick as fat, but I take delight in your Torah.

Darby Translation
Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law.

Easy-to-Read Version
Those people are so stupid that they care for nothing, but I enjoy studying your teachings.

George Lamsa Translation
Their hearts are stubborn; but I keep thy law.

Good News Translation
They have no understanding, but I find pleasure in your law.

Lexham English Bible
Their heart is insensitive like fat; As for me, I take delight in your law.

Literal Translation
Their heart is like fat, without feeling; I delight in Your Law.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their herte is as fat as brawne, but my delite is in thy lawe.

American Standard Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law.

Bible in Basic English
Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their heart is gross like fat; but I delight in Thy law.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their heart is as fat as brawne: but my delyght hath ben in thy lawe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on thy law.

English Revised Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The herte of hem is cruddid as mylk; but Y bithouyte thi lawe.

Update Bible Version
Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in your law.

Webster's Bible Translation
Their heart is as gross as fat; [but] I delight in thy law.

New King James Version
Their heart is as fat as grease, But I delight in Your law.

New Living Translation
Their hearts are dull and stupid, but I delight in your instructions.

New Life Bible
Their heart is covered with fat, but I find joy in Your Law.

New Revised Standard
Their hearts are fat and gross, but I delight in your law.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Gross, like fat, is their heart, I, in thy law, have found dear delight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-70) Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law.

Revised Standard Version
their heart is gross like fat, but I delight in thy law.

Young's Literal Translation
Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I -- in Thy law I have delighted.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Their heart is covered with fat, But I delight in Your law.

Contextual Overview

⁶⁹span data-lang="eng" data-trans="kja" data-ref="psa.119.1" class="versetxt"> [ALEPH.] Blessed are the vndefiled in the way: who walke in the Law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies: and that seeke him with the whole heart. They also doe no iniquitie: they walke in his wayes. Thou hast commaunded vs to keepe thy precepts diligently. O that my wayes were directed to keepe thy statutes! Then shall I not bee ashamed: when I haue respect vnto all thy commandements. I will praise thee with vprightnesse of heart: when I shall haue learned thy righteous iudgements. I will keepe thy statutes: O forsake me not vtterly. [BETH.] Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way? by taking heede thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart haue I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy Commandements. Thy word haue I hidde in mine heart: that I might not sinne against thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes. With my lips haue I declared all the iudgements of thy mouth. I haue reioyced in the way of thy testimonies: as much as in all riches. I will meditate in thy precepts: and haue respect vnto thy wayes. I will delight my selfe in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. [GIMEL.] Deale bountifully with thy seruant; that I may liue, and keepe thy word. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wonderous things out of thy Law. I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandements from me. My soule breaketh for the longing: that it hath vnto thy iudgements at all times. Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed: which doe erre from thy Commandements. Remooue from me reproch and contempt: for I haue kept thy testimonies. Princes also did sit and speake against me: but thy seruant did meditate in thy statutes. Thy testimonies also are my delight: and my counsellers. [DALETH.] My soule cleaueth vnto the dust: quicken thou mee according to thy word. I haue declared my wayes, and thou heardest me: teach me thy Statutes. Make me to vnderstand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talke of thy wonderous workes. My soule melteth for heauines: strengthen thou me according vnto thy word. Remoue from mee the way of lying: and grant me thy Law graciously. I haue chosen the way of trueth: thy iudgements haue I laid before me. I haue stucke vnto thy Testimonies: O Lord put me not to shame. I will runne the way of thy Commandements: when thou shalt enlarge my heart. [HE.] Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy Statutes: and I shall keepe it vnto the end. Giue me vnderstanding, and I shall keepe thy Law: yea I shall obserue it with my whole heart. Make me to goe in the path of thy commandements: for therein doe I delight. Incline my heart vnto thy testimonies: and not to couetousnesse. Turne away mine eyes from beholding vanitie: and quicken thou me in thy way. Stablish thy word vnto thy seruant: who is deuoted to thy feare. Turne away my reproch which I feare: for thy iudgements are good. Behold, I haue longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousnesse. [VAV.] Let thy mercies come also vnto me, O Lord: euen thy saluation, according to thy word. So shall I haue wherewith to answere him that reprocheth me: for I trust in thy word. And take not the word of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for I haue hoped in thy iudgements. So shall I keepe thy Law continually: for euer and euer. And I wil walke at libertie: for I seeke thy precepts. I will speake of thy testimonies also before kings, & wil not be ashamed. And I will delight my selfe in thy commandements, which I haue loued. My hands also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements, which I haue loued: and I will meditate in thy statutes. [ZAIN.] Remember the word vnto thy seruant: vpon which thou hast caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. The proud haue had mee greatly in derision: yet haue I not declined from thy Law. I remembred thy iudgements of old, O Lord: and haue comforted my selfe. Horrour hath taken holde vpon me, because of the wicked that forsake thy Law. Thy statutes haue bin my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. I haue remembred thy name, O Lord, in the night, and haue kept thy Law. This I had: because I kept thy precepts. [CHETH.] Thou art my portion, O Lord, I haue said, that I would keepe thy words. I intreated thy fauour with my whole heart: be mercifull vnto mee according to thy word. I thought on my wayes: and turned my feete vnto thy Testimonies. I made haste; and delayed not to keepe thy commandements. The bands of the wicked haue robbed me: but I haue not forgotten thy lawe. At mid-night I will rise to giue thankes vnto thee: because of thy righteous iudgements. I am a companion of all them that feare thee: and of them that keepe thy precepts. The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. [TETH.] Thou hast dealt well with thy seruant, Oh Lord, according vnto thy word. Teach me good iudgement and knowledge: for I haue beleeued thy commandements. Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but now haue I kept thy word. Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. ⁷⁰ The proud haue forged a lie against me: but I will keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heart is as fat: Psalms 17:10, Psalms 73:7, Isaiah 6:10, Acts 28:27

but I: Psalms 119:16, Psalms 119:35, Psalms 40:8, Romans 7:22

Reciprocal: Leviticus 3:3 - the fat Deuteronomy 31:20 - waxen fat Deuteronomy 32:15 - waxen fat Psalms 112:1 - delighteth Isaiah 5:17 - the waste Jeremiah 5:28 - waxen Jeremiah 6:10 - delight Micah 2:7 - do not Matthew 13:15 - heart

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their heart is as fat as grease,.... Or tallow, a lump of it, fat or grease congealed. That is, the heart of the above proud persons, who abounded in riches, were glutted with the things of this world; had more than heart could wish, and so became proud and haughty: or their hearts were gross, sottish, senseless, and stupid, as persons fat at heart are; or as creatures over fat, which have little or no feeling: so these had no knowledge of the law of God, no sense of their duty, no remorse of conscience for sin; their hearts were hardened, and they past feeling, and given up to a reprobate mind; see Isaiah 6:9; The Targum is,

"the imagination of their heart is become gross as fat:''

the Septuagint is, "curdled like milk"; that is, hardened, as Suidas s interprets it;

[but] I delight in thy law; after the inward man; as the apostle did, Romans 7:22; as fulfilled in Christ; as in his hands, as King and Lawgiver; as written upon his own heart; and so yielding a ready and cheerful obedience to it; he delighted in reading the law, in meditating on it, and in observing it.

s In voce ετυρωθη.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their heart is as fat as grease - They are prospered. They have health, property, influence, comforts of all kinds. heaven appears to smile upon them, and it seems as if it were one effect of a wicked course of life to make people prosperous. See Psalms 17:10, note; Psalms 73:7, note.

But I delight in thy law - Though its observance should not be attended by any such results as seem to follow wickedness, though I am poor, emaciated, pale - disappointed, slandered, persecuted - though my lot in life is among the lowly and the despised - yet I will adhere to my purpose to keep thy law. It is, and it shall be, my delight, whatever may be the effects of so observing it. See Psalms 119:35.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:70. Their heart is as fat as grease — They are egregiously stupid, they have fed themselves without fear; they are become flesh-brutalized, and given over to vile affections, and have no kind of spiritual relish: but I delight in thy law - I have, through thy goodness, a spiritual feeling and a spiritual appetite.