Psalms 35:20
18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: 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 consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
Read in context1 Peter 2:22–23
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
Read in contextJeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Read in contextPsalms 120:5–7
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Read in contextPsalms 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Read in contextMatthew 12:19
He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
Read in contextActs 23:15
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
Read in contextPsalms 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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