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Psa. 119:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou hast rebuked the proudh that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

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1 Peter 5:5• ⁵Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace. (1 Peter 5:5)

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rebuked.

Psa. 119:78• ⁷⁸Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts. (Psa. 119:78)

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Psa. 138:6• ⁶For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off. (Psa. 138:6)

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Ex. 10:3• ³And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: How long dost thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. (Ex. 10:3)

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Ex. 18:11• ¹¹Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they acted haughtily he was above them. (Ex. 18:11)

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Job 40:11‑12• ¹¹Cast abroad the ragings of thine anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him:
¹²Look on every one that is proud, bring him low, and tread down the wicked in their place: (Job 40:11‑12)

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Isa. 2:11‑12• ¹¹The lofty eyes of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.
¹²For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low; (Isa. 2:11‑12)

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Isa. 10:12• ¹²And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. (Isa. 10:12)

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Ezek. 28:2‑10• ²Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a *god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas, (and thou art a man, and not *God,) and thou settest thy heart as the heart of God:
³behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! nothing secret is obscure for thee;
⁴by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
⁵by thy great wisdom thou hast by thy traffic increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches.
⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God,
⁷therefore behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall tarnish thy brightness.
⁸They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of those that are slain in the heart of the seas.
⁹Wilt thou then say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and not *God, in the hand of him that pierceth thee.
¹⁰Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised, by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 28:2‑10)

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Dan. 4:37• ³⁷Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. (Dan. 4:37)

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Dan. 5:22‑24• ²²And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this;
²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
²⁴then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written. (Dan. 5:22‑24)

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Mal. 4:1• ¹For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)

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Luke 14:11• ¹¹for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted. (Luke 14:11)

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Luke 18:14• ¹⁴I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than that other. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. (Luke 18:14)

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James 4:6• ⁶But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly. (James 4:6)

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1 Peter 5:5• ⁵Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace. (1 Peter 5:5)

cursed.

Psa. 119:10,110,118• ¹⁰With my whole heart have I sought thee: let me not wander from thy commandments.
¹¹⁰The wicked have laid a snare for me; but I have not wandered from thy precepts.
¹¹⁸Thou hast set at nought all them that wander from thy statutes; for their deceit is falsehood. (Psa. 119:10,110,118)

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Deut. 27:15‑26• ¹⁵Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, a work of the craftsman's hand, and putteth it up secretly! And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
¹⁶Cursed be he that slighteth his father or his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen.
¹⁷Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark! And all the people shall say, Amen.
¹⁸Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way! And all the people shall say, Amen.
¹⁹Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen.
²⁰Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; for he uncovereth his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen.
²¹Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast! And all the people shall say, Amen.
²²Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen.
²³Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law! And all the people shall say, Amen.
²⁴Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly! And all the people shall say, Amen.
²⁵Cursed be he that taketh reward to smite mortally shedding innocent blood! And all the people shall say, Amen.
²⁶Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:15‑26)

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Deut. 28:15• ¹⁵But it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee. (Deut. 28:15)

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Deut. 30:19• ¹⁹I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you: life and death have I set before you, blessing and cursing: choose then life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed, (Deut. 30:19)

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Neh. 9:16,29• ¹⁶But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
²⁹And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. (Neh. 9:16,29)

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Isa. 42:24• ²⁴Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, neither did they hearken unto his law. (Isa. 42:24)

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Isa. 43:28• ²⁸And I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches. (Isa. 43:28)

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Jer. 44:9‑11,16,28‑29• ⁹Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
¹⁰They are not humbled unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes which I set before you and before your fathers.
¹¹Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
¹⁶As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee,
²⁸And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, a very small company; and all the remnant of Judah, that have come into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine or theirs.
²⁹And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall certainly stand against you for evil: (Jer. 44:9‑11,16,28‑29)

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Gal. 3:13• ¹³Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one hanged upon a tree,) (Gal. 3:13)

• This delight in the word gives a just estimate of man in the world, the “proud” man acting from his own will and setting himself up. He may seem to succeed and puff at God. He is under a curse, he errs from the one true way of man—God’s ways. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 119:1-24” by J.N. Darby)

• {v.21-23} Second, the servant of God finds he is, not only a stranger in the earth, but opposed by the wicked, who in their pride and princely prosperity heap reproaches and contempt upon the one who walks in lowly obedience of God. The godly man forms a just estimate of such. He sees they are rebuked of God and under a curse. (“Psalm 119:17-24: Division 3 (Gimel)” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou hast rebukede the proud that are cursed, who wander from thy commandments.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "Thou rebukest."