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Psalms 119:69

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

KJV

The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.

ASV

טָפְל֬וּ עָלַ֣/י שֶׁ֣קֶר זֵדִ֑ים אֲ֝נִ֗י בְּ/כָל לֵ֤ב אֱצֹּ֬ר פִּקּוּדֶֽי/ךָ

Hebrew

Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.

YLT

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲנִ֥י
'ny
pronoun · 862×
זֵדִ֑ים
zdym
adjective · 12×
טֹֽפְלֵי
tply
verb · 3×
י
y
noun · 591×
ךָ
k
noun · 24×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
נִי
ny
verb · 63×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שָֽׁקֶר
shqr
noun · 110×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 24:5 — For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
  • Acts 24:13 — Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
  • Exod 10:11 — Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
  • Heb 10:22 — Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
  • Jas 1:8 — A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
  • Jer 29:13 — And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
  • Jer 43:2 — Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt
  • Job 13:4 — But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
  • Job 13:4 — But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
  • Matt 5:11 — Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Matt 6:24 — No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
  • Matt 26:59 — Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
  • Ps 10:2 — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
  • Ps 35:11 — False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
  • Ps 36:11 — Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
  • Ps 109:2 — For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
  • Ps 119:10 — With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • Ps 119:34 — Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
  • Ps 119:34 — Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
  • Ps 119:51 — The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
  • Ps 119:58 — I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
  • Ps 119:95 — The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
  • Ps 119:157 — Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
  • Ps 140:5 — The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.