Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
For they do not speak peace; they devise clever lies against the peaceful people of the land.
New American Standard Bible
But they devise
King James Version
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Holman Bible
but contrive deceitful schemes
against those who live peacefully in the land.
A Conservative Version
For they speak not peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
American Standard Version
For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
Amplified
For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words [half-truths and lies] against those who are quiet in the land.
Bible in Basic English
For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.
Darby Translation
For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land.
Julia Smith Translation
For they will not speak peace: and against the quiet of the land they will purpose words of deceits.
King James 2000
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.
Modern King James verseion
For they do not speak peace; but they think deceitful things against the quiet ones of the earth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And why? Their communing is not for peace, but they imagine deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
NET Bible
For they do not try to make peace with others, but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting.
New Heart English Bible
For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
The Emphasized Bible
For, no salvation, will they utter, - But, against the quiet of the land, deceitful things, do they devise;
Webster
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
World English Bible
For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
Youngs Literal Translation
For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 35:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Victory
19 Do not let my deceitful enemies gloat over me, nor let those who hate me without justification mock me with their eyes. 20 For they do not speak peace; they devise clever lies against the peaceful people of the land. 21 They open their mouth wide against me, claiming, "Yes! Yes! We saw him do it with our own eyes!"
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Cross References
Psalm 31:13
I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.
Psalm 36:3-4
The words from his mouth are vain and deceptive. He has abandoned behaving wisely and doing good.
Psalm 38:12
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.
Psalm 64:4-6
shooting at the innocent from concealment. Suddenly they shoot, fearing nothing.
Psalm 120:5-7
How terrible for me, that I am an alien in Meshech, that I reside among the tents of Kedar!
Psalm 140:2-5
who craft evil plans in their minds, inciting wars every day.
Jeremiah 11:19
I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised schemes against me. They told themselves, "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit. Let's eliminate him from the land of the living, so his name won't be remembered again."
Daniel 6:5
So these men said, "We'll never find any basis for complaint against Daniel unless we build it on the requirements of his God."
Matthew 12:19
He will not quarrel or shout, and no one will hear him shouting in the streets.
Matthew 12:24
But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "This man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons."
Matthew 26:4
They conspired to arrest Jesus by treachery and to kill him.
Acts 23:15
Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him."
Acts 25:3
and asking Festus to have Paul brought to Jerusalem as a favor. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the road.
1 Peter 2:22-23
"He never sinned, and he never told a lie."