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King James Version

Psalms 119:23

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Meditation;   Speaking;   Word of God;  

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;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Meditation;   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 - Meditation;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Even princes sit and speak against me, but I will meditate on your decrees.
English Revised Version
Princes also sat and talked against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Update Bible Version
Princes also sat and talked against me; [But] your slave meditated on your statutes.
New Century Version
Even if princes speak against me, I, your servant, will think about your demands.
New English Translation
Though rulers plot and slander me, your servant meditates on your statutes.
Webster's Bible Translation
Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
World English Bible
Though princes sit and slander me, Your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Amplified Bible
Even though princes sit and talk to one another against me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
English Standard Version
Even though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi princis saten, and spaken ayens me; but thi seruaunt was exercisid in thi iustifiyngis.
Berean Standard Bible
Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes;
Contemporary English Version
I keep thinking about your teachings, Lord , even if rulers plot against me.
American Standard Version
Princes also sat and talked against me; But thy servant did meditate on thy statutes.
Bible in Basic English
Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules.
Complete Jewish Bible
Even when princes sit and plot against me, your servant meditates on your laws.
Darby Translation
Princes also did sit [and] talk together against me: thy servant doth meditate in thy statutes.
Easy-to-Read Version
Even if rulers say bad things about me, I am your servant, and I continue to study your laws.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Even though princes sit and talk against me, thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes.
King James Version (1611)
Princes also did sit and speake against me: but thy seruant did meditate in thy statutes.
New Life Bible
Even if rulers sit together and speak against me, Your servant thinks about Your Law.
New Revised Standard
Even though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Princes also did sit, and speake against me: but thy seruant did meditate in thy statutes.
George Lamsa Translation
The ungodly sat and plotted against me; but I meditated in thy statutes.
Good News Translation
The rulers meet and plot against me, but I will study your teachings.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even rulers have taken their seat, against me, have talked, Thy servant, will still meditate in thy statutes.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-23) For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.
Revised Standard Version
Even though princes sit plotting against me, thy servant will meditate on thy statutes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea princes dyd syt and speake agaynst me: but thy seruaunt did geue hym selfe to the meditation of thy statutes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For princes sat and spoke against me: but thy servant was meditating on thine ordinances.
Christian Standard Bible®
Though princes sit together speaking against me,your servant will think about your statutes;
Hebrew Names Version
Though princes sit and slander me, Your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Lexham English Bible
Even though princes sit and speak against me, your servant meditates on your statutes.
Literal Translation
Princes also sat, speaking against me; but Your servant meditates on Your laws.
Young's Literal Translation
Princes also sat -- against me they spoke, Thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Prynces also syt & speake agaynst me, but thy seruaut is occupied in thy statutes.
New American Standard Bible
Even though rulers sit and speak against me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
New King James Version
Princes also sit and speak against me, But Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Even though princes sit and talk against me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Even though princes sit and talk against me,Your slave muses on Your statutes.

Contextual Overview

23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Princes: Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:2, 1 Samuel 20:31, 1 Samuel 22:7-13, Luke 22:66, Luke 23:1, Luke 23:2, Luke 23:10, Luke 23:11

thy servant: Psalms 119:15

Reciprocal: Psalms 119:78 - but I will Psalms 119:161 - Princes Isaiah 38:12 - he will cut 1 Timothy 4:15 - Meditate

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Princes also did sit [and] speak against me,.... The princes in the court of Saul, who suggested to him that David sought his hurt; the princes of his own court, Absalom, his own son, a prince of the blood, and Ahithophel, a counsellor of state: or the princes of the Gentiles, as Jarchi; so the princes of the Philistines spake against him in a very disdainful manner, "make this fellow return to his place again", 1 Samuel 29:4. Such as these might speak against him, as they sat and rode in their chariots; when at their tables, conversing together; or at their council boards, forming schemes against him: the phrase denotes their constant practice, as Kimchi observes; see Psalms 50:20; herein David was a type of Christ, whom the princes of this world conspired against, and whose life they took away, Psalms 2:2;

[but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes; what the princes did or said against him did not divert his mind, or take off his thoughts from the word of God, and the ordinances of it; he thought of them, he spoke and discoursed of them; he declared them, as the word w sometimes signifies, and so the Targum takes it here; he was not afraid nor ashamed to profess his regard unto them: as Daniel, when he knew that the presidents and princes had obtained a royal decree, and the writing was signed; yet went into his chamber, as at other times, and kneeled down and prayed to God, Daniel 6:10.

w ישיח "disserit", Tigurine version, Vatablus, Musculus; "loquitur", Piscator, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Princes also did sit and speak against me - This would have been applicable to David many times in his life, but it was also applicable to many others, and there is nothing in the language which would limit it to David. It is evident that the author of the psalm had been subject to reproach from those who were of exalted rank; it is clear also that he felt this keenly. It is natural, whether proper or not, that we should feel the reproach and contempt of those in elevated life - the rich, the honored, the learned - more than of those in humbler life. Their good opinion can be of value only as they may be better qualified than others to judge of what constitutes true excellence, or as they may have it in their power to do us more harm, or to do more to aid us in doing good, than others have; but truth and principle are never to be sacrificed that we may secure their favor; and if, in the faithful discharge of our duty, and the zealous adherence to the principles of our religion, we incur their frowns, we are to bear it - as the great Lord and Saviour of his people did. Hebrews 13:13.

But thy servant did meditate in thy statutes - I was engaged in this; I continued to do it; I was not deterred from it by their opposition; I found comfort in it, when they sat and talked against me. This would seem to have reference to some occasion when they were together - in public business, or in the social circle. They, the princes and nobles engaged in the ordinary topics of conversation, or in conversation connected with revelry, frivolity, or sin. Unwilling to participate in this - having different tastes - feeling that it was improper to be one of their companions in such a mode of spending time, or in such subjects of conversation, “he” withdrew, he turned his thoughts on the law of God, he sought comfort in meditation on that law and on God. He became, therefore, the subject of remark - perhaps of their jests - “because” he thus refused to mingle with them, or because he put on what seemed to be hypocritical seriousness, and was (what they deemed) stern, sour, unsocial, as if he thus publicly, though tacitly, meant to rebuke them. Nothing will be more “likely” to subject one to taunting remarks, to rebuke, to contempt, than to manifest a religious spirit, and to introduce religion in any way in the circles of the worldly and the frivolous.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:23. Princes also did sit — It is very likely that the nobles of Babylon did often, by wicked misrepresentations, render the minds of the kings of the empire evil affected towards the Jews.


 
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