KJV King James Version
All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
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Psalm 119:86
All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!
WEB World English Bible
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
ASV American Standard Version
All thy commandments are faithful: They persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
All Thy commands are faithfulness, With falsehood they have pursued me, Help Thou me.
Surrounding context — Psalm 119
83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.
84 How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
85 The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy law.
86 All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
89 LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
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Psalm 70:5But I [am] poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.Psalm 35:19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.Psalm 35:7For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.Psalm 119:78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.Psalm 109:26Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:Psalm 119:138Thy testimonies [that] thou hast commanded [are] righteous and very faithful.Psalm 119:151Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth.Romans 7:12Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.Psalm 119:128Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all [things to be] right; [and] I hate every false way.Psalm 119:142Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth.Jeremiah 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.Psalm 19:9The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.Psalm 59:3-4For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.Psalm 142:4-6I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was] no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.Psalm 38:19But mine enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.Psalm 7:1-5Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:Psalm 143:9Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
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