Psalm 119:53 {118:53}
Good News Translation
When I see the wicked breaking your law, I am filled with anger.

New Revised Standard Version
Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, those who forsake your law.

Contemporary English Version
I get furious when evil people turn against your Law.

New American Bible
Rage seizes me because of the wicked; they forsake your law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

horror.

Psalm 11:6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Psalm 119:136,158 My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law. . . .

Ezra 9:3,14 And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and plucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning. . . .

Ezra 10:5 So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word, and they swore.

Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Daniel 4:19 It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto the ends of the earth.

Habakkuk 3:16 I have heard and my bowels were troubled: my lips trembled at the voice. Let rottenness enter into my bones, and swarm under me. That I may rest in the day of tribulation: that I may go up to our people that are girded.

Luke 19:41,42 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: . . .

Romans 9:1-3 I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost: . . .

2 Corinthians 12:21 Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.

Philippians 3:18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ:

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
52I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted. 53A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law.54Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage.…
Cross References
Exodus 32:19
And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and broke them at the foot of the mount:

Ezra 9:3
And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and plucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.

Nehemiah 13:25
And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:

Psalm 89:30
And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:

Psalm 119:158
I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word.

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.

Psalm 119:52
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