Psalms 119:21

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“You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.”

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BSBPD

“You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, That do wander from thy commandments.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou hast rebuked the cursed proud, Who are erring from Thy commands.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 119:21 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
  2. Exodus 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”
  3. Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  4. Deuteronomy 27:26‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  5. Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  6. Deuteronomy 30:19I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
  7. Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
  8. Nehemiah 9:29You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.
  9. Job 40:11Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
  10. Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
  11. Psalms 119:78May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
  12. Psalms 119:110The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.
  13. Psalms 119:118You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.
  14. Psalms 138:6Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
  15. Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
  16. Isaiah 10:12So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
  17. Isaiah 42:24Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
  18. Isaiah 43:28So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
  19. Jeremiah 44:9Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
  20. Jeremiah 44:16“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
  21. Jeremiah 44:28Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!
  22. Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
  23. Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
  24. Daniel 5:22But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.

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