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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 elders; and all of you bind on humility to one another; because God setteth himself against haughty ones, and giveth grace to lowly. (1 Peter 5:5)

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rebuked.

Psa. 119:78• ⁷⁸Let proud men be ashamed;{HR}For [with] falsehood they perverted me:{HR}{i}I{/i} will meditate in thy precepts. (Psa. 119:78)

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Psa. 138:6• ⁶For Jehovah [is] exalted, yet he seeth the lowly,{HR}And the proud he knoweth from afar. (Psa. 138:6)

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Ex. 10:3• ³{i}And 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.{/i} (Ex. 10:3)

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

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Job 40:11‑12• ¹¹Scatter abroad the outbursts of thine anger,{HR}See every proud one, and humble him;
¹²See every proud one — make him bow,{HR}And tread down the wicked in their place; (Job 40:11‑12)

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Isa. 2:11‑12• ¹¹The lofty looks 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 all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is 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 [that], when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout 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 Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God.
³Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel: there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
⁴with thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
⁵by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches.
⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
⁷behold, therefore, 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 defile thy brightness.
⁸They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
⁹Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no god, in the hand of him that slayeth 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• ³⁷{i}Now 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.{/i} (Dan. 4:37)

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Dan. 5:22‑24• ²²And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; {i}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;{/i} and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
²⁴{i}then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written.{/i} (Dan. 5:22‑24)

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Mal. 4:1• ¹For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)

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Luke 14:11• ¹¹For every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that abaseth 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 everyone who exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. (Luke 18:14)

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James 4:6• ⁶But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly. (James 4:6)

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1 Peter 5:5• ⁵Likewise, ye younger, be subject to elders; and all of you bind on humility to one another; because God setteth himself against haughty ones, and giveth grace to lowly. (1 Peter 5:5)

cursed.

Psa. 119:10,110,118• ¹⁰With my whole heart have I sought thee;{HR}Let me not wander from thy commandments.
¹¹⁰Wicked [men] laid a snare for me,{HR}Yet (and) from thy precepts I strayed not.
¹¹⁸Thou settest at nought all wanderers from thy statutes;{HR}For a lie [is] their deceit. (Psa. 119:10,110,118)

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Deut. 27:15‑26• ¹⁵Cursed, {i}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.{/i}
¹⁶{i}Cursed be he that slighteth his father or his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i}
¹⁷{i}Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i}
¹⁸{i}Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i}
¹⁹{i}Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i}
²⁰{i}Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; for he uncovereth his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i}
²¹{i}Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i}
²²{i}Cursed 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.{/i}
²³{i}Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i}
²⁴{i}Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i}
²⁵{i}Cursed be he that taketh reward to smite mortally shedding innocent blood! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i}
²⁶{i}Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i} (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 observe 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• ¹⁹{i}I 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,{/i} (Deut. 30:19)

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Neh. 9:16,29• ¹⁶{i}But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,{/i}
²⁹{i}And 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.{/i} (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, nor be obedient unto his law. (Isa. 42:24)

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Isa. 43:28• ²⁸Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and made Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling. (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 even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that 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.
²⁸Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine or theirs.
²⁹And this shall be a sign unto you, saith Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil: (Jer. 44:9‑11,16,28‑29)

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Gal. 3:13• ¹³Christ bought us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, “Cursed is every one that hangeth on 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."

W. Kelly Translation

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Thou hast rebuked proud [men], accursed,{HR}That wander from thy commandments.