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Psalms 119:70

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Pride;   The Topic Concordance - Goodness;   Heart;   Pride/arrogance;   Teaching;   Wealth;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Delight;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Teth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Joy;   Pharisees;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Regeneration;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Testimony;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Scripture;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Rease;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Delight;   Fat;   Grease;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Fat;  

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.
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.
King James Version (1611)
The proud haue forged a lie against me: but I will keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.
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

69Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I will keep Your precepts with all my heart. 70Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.

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.


 
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