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Let the proud be put to shame, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
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A Noble Response to Injustice
When faced with unjust attacks, lies, or contempt, the psalmist models a powerful response. Instead of getting caught up in resentment or retaliation, he turns his focus to God's precepts. Commentators like Charles Spurgeon call this the 'noblest and most successful way' to handle persecution, finding stability and purpose in God's truth rather than in the conflict.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let the proud be ashamed - Referring here to his enemies, who appear to have been in the higher ranks of life, or to have been thos…
19th Century
Anglican
Dealt. —Better, wronged me; literally, bent me.
Baptist
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.
That is a deligh…
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16th Century
Protestant
Let the proud be put to shame. We have often remarked that, in the Hebrew language, the future tense is frequently used in the sense of th…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let the proud be ashamed The same persons he before speaks of as accursed, who had him in derision, and forged a lie…
God made us to serve him and enjoy him; but by sin, we have made ourselves unfit to serve him and to enjoy him. We ought, therefore, continually to…
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