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King James Version

Psalms 119:39

Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Instruction;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Goodness;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Good;   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;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Help me abandon my shameful ways; for your regulations are good.
English Revised Version
Turn away my reproach whereof I am afraid; for thy judgments are good.
Update Bible Version
Turn away my reproach whereof I am afraid; For your ordinances are good.
New Century Version
Take away the shame I fear, because your laws are good.
New English Translation
Take away the insults that I dread! Indeed, your regulations are good.
Webster's Bible Translation
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good.
World English Bible
Take away my disgrace that I dread, For your ordinances are good.
Amplified Bible
Turn away my reproach which I dread, For Your ordinances are good.
English Standard Version
Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Kitte awey my schenschip, which Y supposide; for thi domes ben myrie.
Berean Standard Bible
Turn away the disgrace I dread, for Your judgments are good.
Contemporary English Version
Your wonderful teachings protect me from the insults that I hate so much.
American Standard Version
Turn away my reproach whereof I am afraid; For thine ordinances are good.
Bible in Basic English
Take away the shame which is my fear; for your decisions are good.
Complete Jewish Bible
Avert the disgrace which I dread, for your rulings are good.
Darby Translation
Turn away my reproach which I fear; for thy judgments are good.
Easy-to-Read Version
Take away the shame I fear. Your laws are good.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Turn away my reproach which I dread; for Thine ordinances are good.
King James Version (1611)
Turne away my reproch which I feare: for thy iudgements are good.
New Life Bible
Turn away the shame that I do not want to come to me, for Your Law is good.
New Revised Standard
Turn away the disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Take away my rebuke that I feare: for thy iudgements are good.
George Lamsa Translation
Turn away my reproach: because thy judgments are good.
Good News Translation
Save me from the insults I fear; how wonderful are your judgments!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Cause to pass away my reproach, that I have feared, for, thy regulations, are good.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-39) Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful.
Revised Standard Version
Turn away the reproach which I dread; for thy ordinances are good.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take away the reproche that I am afraide of: for thy iudgemetes are good.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take away my reproach which I have feared: for thy judgments are good.
Christian Standard Bible®
Turn away the disgrace I dread;indeed, your judgments are good.
Hebrew Names Version
Take away my disgrace that I dread, For your ordinances are good.
Lexham English Bible
Turn away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
Literal Translation
Turn away my shame which I fear; for Your judgments are good.
Young's Literal Translation
Remove my reproach that I have feared, For Thy judgments [are] good.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take awaye the rebuke yt I am afraied of, for thy iudgmetes are amiable.
New American Standard Bible
Take away my disgrace which I dread, For Your judgments are good.
New King James Version
Turn away my reproach which I dread, For Your judgments are good.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Turn away my reproach which I dread, For Your ordinances are good.
Legacy Standard Bible
Cause my reproach which I dread to pass away,For Your judgments are good.

Contextual Overview

39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Turn: Psalms 119:22, Psalms 119:31, Psalms 39:8, Psalms 57:3, 2 Samuel 12:14, 1 Timothy 3:7, 1 Timothy 5:14, Titus 2:8

for thy: Psalms 119:20, Psalms 119:43, Psalms 119:75, Psalms 119:123, Psalms 119:131, Psalms 19:9, Deuteronomy 4:8, Isaiah 26:8, Romans 2:2, Revelation 19:2

Reciprocal: Joshua 5:9 - I rolled away Proverbs 25:10 - thine

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Turn away my reproach which I fear,.... Either for the sake of religion, which was disagreeable to him; and he might be afraid it would be too heavy for him to bear, and be a temptation to him to forsake the good ways of God: or rather by reason of sin, which brings a reproach on good men; and causes the enemy to speak reproachfully, and is therefore dreaded by them who desire to be kept from sin, for that reason as well as others; see Psalms 39:8. Jarchi and Kimchi think that David has some reference to his sins, in the case of Uriah and Bathsheba; lest they should be a perpetual reproach on his name and family, which he greatly feared;

for thy judgments [are] good; the laws of God, and punishment of sin according to them; the Scriptures, and the doctrines contained in them; the ways of God, and true religion; which are evil spoken of, through the sins of the professors of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Turn away my reproach - The reproach which is likely to come upon me from being a professed worshipper of God. In all ages good men have been exposed to this reproach.

Which I fear - Which I have reason to apprehend will come upon me. This may not mean that he was personally afraid of it, but merely that he had reason to apprehend that he was exposed to it. The prayer is proper, for there is nothing which our nature makes us shrink back from more than reproach. Compare Psalms 119:22; Psalms 69:9, Psalms 69:20; Romans 15:3; 2 Corinthians 12:10. The word repreach in the original is the same which denotes shame or dishonor.

For thy judgments are good - Thy statutes; thy laws. I know they are good. I feel that I desire to obey them. I pray, therefore, that obedience on my part to that which is good may not subject me to shame; that people may see that thy laws are good, and that it is not a matter of reproach to obey them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:39. Turn away my reproach, which I fear — This may be understood of the reproach which a man may meet with in consequence of living a godly life, for such a life was never fashionable in any time or country. But I have found the following note on the passage: "I have done a secret evil; my soul is sorry for it: if it become public, it will be a heavy reproach to me. O God, turn it away, and let it never meet the eye of man!" - Anon.


 
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