Psalm 35:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For they do not speak peace, but they conceive deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For they speak not peace: But they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

American Standard Version (1901)

For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

Common English Bible

They don’t speak the truth; instead, they plot false accusations against innocent people in the land.

Psalm 35:20 Cross References

Psalm 31:13

For I hear the whispering of many— terror all around!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

Psalm 38:12

Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin and meditate on treachery all day long.

Psalm 52:2

you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. And I did not know it was against me that they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered!”

Daniel 6:5

The men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”

Matthew 12:19

He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, that this man casts out the demons.”

Matthew 26:4

and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and 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 make a more thorough examination of his case. And we are ready to do away with him before he arrives.”

Acts 25:3

and requested, as a favor to them against Paul, to have him transferred to Jerusalem. They were, in fact, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.