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Psalm 119:78

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

76Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
78Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
79Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes.
80Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAPF
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“Let the proud be disappointed” is a plea for judgment after wrongful harm, followed by a resolve to keep attending to God’s commands.

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Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 25:3Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.Both passages look to God for the shame or disappointment of those who harm others without cause.
Psalm 119:15I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.Both verses contain the same resolve, “I will meditate on your precepts,” making God’s instruction the focus of attention.
Psalm 119:51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.Both describe harm from arrogant people alongside a firm commitment to God’s instruction.
John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’Wrongful overthrow in the psalm and hatred without cause in John share the protest against undeserved hostility.
1 Peter 2:20For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.Both passages concern unjust suffering and a response that remains directed toward God.
Psalm 119:23Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.Both speakers resolve to meditate on God’s instruction while facing harm from others, whether wrongful overthrow or slander.
Jeremiah 50:32The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him.”Both concern the downfall of the proud: the psalm requests their disappointment, while Jeremiah declares their fall.
1 Samuel 24:17He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.Both texts name wrongful treatment; Samuel also records the wrongdoer admitting that David has answered evil with good.
1 Samuel 26:18He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?Both speakers protest undeserved harm: one names wrongful overthrow, while the other questions the grounds for pursuit.
1 Samuel 24:10–12Behold, today your eyes have seen how the LORD had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will …Both describe a response to an opponent shaped by regard for God, through meditation in the psalm and restraint in Samuel.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. work conflict.

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Encouragement

The harm remains unresolved within this verse. The speaker asks God to judge the proud and commits to meditation; God’s commands still have authority amid wrongful treatment.

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