Psalms 35:20
18 Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.
19 Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
21 They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
22 O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
- KJV
- For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- WEB
- For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
- ASV
- For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
- DARBY
- For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land.
- BLB
- For they do not speak peace, and against the quiet of the land, they devise words of deceit.
- ÅB
- For de taler ikke fred,
men tenker ut svik mot de stille i landet. - OTB
- For de taler ikke om fred,
Men de planlegger bedragerske ord mot dem som lever stille i landet. - B1930
- For de taler ikke fred, men optenker svik mot de stille i landet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 26:4
and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
Read in context1 Peter 2:22–23
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
Read in contextJeremiah 11:19
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
Read in contextPsalms 120:5–7
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
Read in contextPsalms 38:12
Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
Read in contextMatthew 12:19
He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear His voice in the streets.
Read in contextActs 23:15
Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
Read in contextPsalms 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
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