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Psalms 119:158

I beheld them that were faithless, and strove with them; because they observed not Thy word.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Word of God;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Earnestness-Indifference;   Solicitude;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Scriptures, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Resh;   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;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Grief;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
I see the treacherous and loathe them,Those who do not keep Your word.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I behold the treacherous and loathe them, Because they do not keep Your word.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I sawe transgressours, and I was greeued at the heart: because they kept not thy lawe.
Darby Translation
I beheld them that deal treacherously, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
New King James Version
I see the treacherous, and am disgusted, Because they do not keep Your word.
Literal Translation
I saw those acting deceitfully and was grieved, because they did not keep Your Word.
Easy-to-Read Version
I look at those traitors and hate what I see, because they refuse to do what you say.
World English Bible
I look at the faithless with loathing, Because they don't observe your word.
King James Version (1611)
I beheld the transgressours, and was grieued: because they kept not thy word.
King James Version
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It greueth me, whan I se, that the transgressours kepe not thy lawe.
Amplified Bible
I see the treacherous and loathe them, Because they do not respect Your law.
American Standard Version
I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved, Because they observe not thy word.
Bible in Basic English
I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
Update Bible Version
I saw the treacherous, and was grieved, Because they do not observe your word.
Webster's Bible Translation
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
New English Translation
I take note of the treacherous and despise them, because they do not keep your instructions.
Contemporary English Version
All of those unfaithful people who refuse to obey you are disgusting to me.
Complete Jewish Bible
I look at traitors with disgust, because they don't keep your word.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I saw the transgressours and was grieued, because they kept not thy worde.
George Lamsa Translation
I beheld the transgressors and I knew they had not kept thy word.
Hebrew Names Version
I look at the faithless with loathing, Because they don't observe your word.
New Living Translation
Seeing these traitors makes me sick at heart, because they care nothing for your word.
New Life Bible
I look with hate on those who cannot be trusted, because they do not keep Your Word.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I beheld men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not thine oracles.
English Revised Version
I beheld the treacherous dealers, and was grieved; because they observed not thy word.
Berean Standard Bible
I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.
New Revised Standard
I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have seen traitors, and felt loathing, Because, thy word, they kept not.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-158) I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word.
Lexham English Bible
I see the treacherous and I feel disgust, because they do not heed your word.
English Standard Version
I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commands.
New American Standard Bible
I see the treacherous and loathe them, Because they do not keep Your word.
New Century Version
I see those traitors, and I hate them, because they do not obey what you say.
Good News Translation
When I look at those traitors, I am filled with disgust, because they do not keep your commands.
Christian Standard Bible®
I have seen the disloyal and feel disgust because they do not keep Your word.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I siy brekers of the lawe, and Y was meltid; for thei kepten not thi spechis.
Revised Standard Version
I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep thy commands.
Young's Literal Translation
I have seen treacherous ones, And grieve myself, Because Thy saying they have not kept.

Contextual Overview

158 I beheld them that were faithless, and strove with them; because they observed not Thy word.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 119:53, Psalms 119:136, Ezekiel 9:4, Mark 3:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:6 - grieved 1 Samuel 15:35 - Samuel mourned Psalms 139:21 - and am not Matthew 18:31 - they Luke 19:41 - and wept Acts 17:16 - his spirit 2 Peter 2:8 - in seeing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved,.... Transgressors of the law of God, profane sinners; such as among whom he dwelt in Mesech and Kedar; it grieved him when he beheld their wicked life and conversation; as Lot in Sodom; and Isaiah and Jeremiah, among persons of unclean lips, and an assembly of treacherous men: and the word here used signifies "treacherous" g persons; and may design not the profane only, but professors also; that dealt treacherously with God and men, made a profession of religion, but walked not agreeably to it, which is matter of grief to good men; see Philippians 3:18; as well as the conduct of abandoned sinners; with whom the psalmist was grieved, not so much on his own account, being hated and persecuted by them, as on their account, because of the ruin they brought upon themselves; but chiefly because of the dishonour of God, and their disregard to his righteous law. Joseph Kimchi paraphrases it,

"I saw them prosper, and was weary of my life;''

and refers for the sense of the word to Job 10:1; as does also Aben Ezra; but David Kimchi and the Targum interpret it "I strove", or "contended" with them; that is, with the transgressors;

because they kept not thy word: did not regard the doctrines, nor observe the precepts of it; but despised, rejected, and cast them away from them.

g בוגדים "perfidos", Vatablus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "perfide agentes", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I beheld the transgressors - Those who wronged me; those who violated the law of God.

And was grieved - Or, “sickened.” The word used here means commonly to loathe, to nauseate, to sicken. Ezekiel 16:47; Psalms 95:10. I was made sad, sorry, sick at heart. I did not look on them with anger; I did not desire to take revenge upon them; I did not return evil for evil. My heart was sad that people would do wrong; that they would expose themselves to such danger. See the notes at Psalms 119:136.

Because they kept not thy word - Because they violated thy law; because they were sinners.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 158. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved — Literally, I was affected with anguish.


 
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