Psalm 119:70 “Their hearts are callous and insensitive, but I delight in Your law.”

Psalm 119:70

Their hearts are callous and insensitive, but I delight in Your law.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

World English Bible

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

American Standard Version

Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law.

Geneva Bible 1599

Their heart is fatte as grease: but my delite is in thy Lawe.

Darby Translation

Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law.

Young's Literal Translation

Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I — in Thy law I have delighted.

Bible in Basic English

Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

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Cross references

“heart is as fat”

Psalm 17:10 Acts 28:27 Psalm 73:7 Isaiah 6:10

Psalm 17:10 · BSB

They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.

Acts 28:27 · BSB

For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I…

Psalm 73:7 · BSB

From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

Isaiah 6:10 · BSB

Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed. ”

“but I”

Psalm 119:16 Psalm 119:35 Psalm 40:8 Romans 7:22

Psalm 119:16 · BSB

I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

Psalm 119:35 · BSB

Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.

Psalm 40:8 · BSB

I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

Romans 7:22 · BSB

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

69Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

71It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

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