Psalm 119 (171 of 190 notes)

158. I beheld the transgressors. I saw the traitors; I understood their character, their object, their way, and their end. I could not help seeing them, for they pushed themselves into my way. As I was obliged to see them I fixed my eyes on them, to learn what I could from them. And was grieved. I was sick of them, disgusted with them, I could not endure them. I found no pleasure in them; they were a sad sight to me, however fine their clothing or witty their chattering. Because they kept not thy word. My grief was occasioned more by their sin against God than by their enmity against myself. Thy Word is so precious to me that those who will not keep it move me to indignation; I cannot keep the company of those who keep not God’s Word.