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Psalms 119:78 — King James Version← Study notes

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.


Psalms 119:78Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 119:788 words
HebrewMeaning
יֵבֹ֣שׁוּyēbōšw
let them be ashamedverbH954
make · bring to · cause · put to ···
זֵ֭דִיםzēdiym
arrogant peopleadjH2086
proud
כִּיkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
שֶׁ֣קֶרšeqer
falsehoodnounH8267
deceit · false(-hood · -ly) · feignedly ···
עִוְּת֑וּ/נִיʿiwətwniy
they have subverted meverbH5791
crooked · falsifying · overthrow · deal perversely ···
אֲ֝נִ֗יʾăniy
IprepH589
me · mine · myself · we ···
אָשִׂ֥יחַʾāśiyḥa
I will meditateverbH7878
complain · declare · meditate · muse ···
בְּ/פִקּוּדֶֽי/ךָbəpiqwdeykā
on precepts yourpronH6490
precept · statute
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 119:78

1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” Psalm 118:1. As much as to say, I know what you wish, you are seeking bliss: if then you would be blessed, be undefiled. For the former all desire, the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 119 (Aleph)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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