Psalm 119:158 {118:158}
Good News Translation
When I look at those traitors, I am filled with disgust, because they do not keep your commands.

New Revised Standard Version
I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commands.

Contemporary English Version
Those unfaithful people who refuse to obey you are disgusting to me.

New American Bible
I view the faithless with loathing because they do not heed your promise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word.

Psalm 119:53,136 A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. . . .

Ezekiel 9:4 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.

Mark 3:5 And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
157Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies. 158I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word.159Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou in thy mercy.…
Cross References
Psalm 25:3
Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

Psalm 119:53
A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

Psalm 119:136
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law.

Psalm 139:21
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?

Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.

Isaiah 24:16
From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated.

Psalm 119:157
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