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Psalm 119:118

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119:118You despise150 all who stray from your statutes,

for they are deceptive and unreliable.151

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Footnotes

  1. 150 The Hebrew verb סָלָה (salah, “to disdain”) occurs only here and in Lam 1:15. Cognate usage in Aramaic and Akkadian, as well as Lam 1:15, suggest it may have a concrete nuance of “to throw away.”
  2. 151 Heb “for their deceit [is] falsehood.”

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You spurn all who go astray from your statutes,

for their cunning is in vain.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You reject all who stray from your decrees,

for their delusions come to nothing.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You reject all who stray from your statutes,

for their deceit is a lie.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

But you have rejected all who stray from your decrees.

They are only fooling themselves.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You reject all who stray from your statutes,

for their deceit is a breach of faith.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes:

For their deceit is falsehood.

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