Salmos 119:78

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Sean avergonzados los soberbios, porque sin causa me han calumniado; mas yo, meditaré en tus mandamientos.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Sean avergonzados los soberbios, porque me agravian con mentira; pero yo en tus preceptos meditaré.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Sean avergonzados los soberbios, porque sin causa me han calumniado: Yo empero, meditar� en tus mandamientos.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Sean avergonzados los soberbios, porque sin causa me han calumniado; pero yo, meditar� en tus mandamientos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the proud: Psalms 119:21, Psalms 119:51, Psalms 119:85, Psalms 35:26

without: Psalms 119:86, Psalms 7:3-5, Psalms 25:3, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 69:4, Psalms 109:3, 1 Samuel 24:10-12, 1 Samuel 24:17, 1 Samuel 26:18, John 15:25, 1 Peter 2:20

but I will: Psalms 119:23, Psalms 1:2

Reciprocal: Psalms 119:15 - meditate

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let the proud be ashamed,.... The same persons he before speaks of as accursed, who had him in derision, and forged a lie against him. Here he prays that they might be ashamed of their scoffs and jeers, of their lies and calumnies, the evils and injuries they had done him; that they might be brought to a sense of them, and repentance for them; when they would be ashamed of them in the best manner: or that they might be disappointed of their ends, in what they had done, and so be confounded and ashamed, as men are when they cannot gain their point; or be brought to shame and confusion eternally;

for they dealt perversely with me without a cause; or, "they perverted me [with] falsehood" w; that is, they endeavoured to pervert him with lies and falsehood, and lead him out of the right way; or they attempted, by their lies and calumnies, to make him out to be a perverse and wicked man, and pronounced and condemned him as such, without any foundation or just cause for it;

[but] I will meditate in thy precepts; he was determined, in the strength of grace, that those ill usages should not take off his thoughts from religious things, or divert him from his duty to his God: none of these things moved him; he still went on in the ways of God, in his worship and service, as Daniel did, when in like circumstances.

w שקר עותוני "mendacio me opprimere quaerunt", Tigurine version; "mendaciis", Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let the proud be ashamed - Referring here to his enemies, who appear to have been in the higher ranks of life, or to have been those who prided themselves on their wealth, their station, or their influence. See the notes at Psalms 119:51. The psalmist asks here that they might be confounded or put to shame; that is, that they might fail of accomplishing their purposes in regard to him. See Psalms 25:2-3, notes; Job 6:20, note.

For they dealt perversely with me - They were not honest; they deceived me; they took advantage of me; they were not true to their professions of friendship. Compare the notes at Isaiah 59:3; notes at Job 8:3; notes at Job 34:12.

Without a cause - Hebrew, “by a lie.” That is, They have been guilty of falsehood in their charges or accusations against me. I have given them no occasion for such treatment, and their conduct is based on an entire misrepresentation. See the notes at John 15:25.

But I will meditate in thy precepts - See the notes at Psalms 1:2. I will not be diverted from thee, from thy law, from thy service, by all that man can do to me; by all the false charges which the enemies of religion may bring against me; by all the contempt or persecution that I may suffer for my attachment to thee. See Psalms 119:23, note; Psalms 119:69, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:78. Let the proud be ashamed — To reduce a proud man to shame, is to humble him indeed. Let them be confounded. Without cause - without any colourable pretext, have they persecuted me.