I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
I beheld the transgressors - literally, the treacherous transgressors (note, Psalms 25:3); unfaithful to their covenanted duty to their neighbour, as well as to God.
And was grieved (Psalms 119:136; Ezra 9:4) - not so much for the injury which they did to me, as for the dishonour to thee.