Psalm 55:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: He hath broken his covenant.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ [My companion] has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has broken and profaned his agreement [of friendship and loyalty].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.

Common English Bible

²⁰ My friend attacked his allies, breaking his covenant.

Psalm 55:20 Cross References

2 Samuel 18:12

But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom!’

2 Samuel 2:4

Then the people of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, “It was the people of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”

2 Samuel 5:3

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They do not worship the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

Psalm 109:5

So they reward me evil for good and hatred for my love.

Psalm 6:10

All my enemies shall be ashamed and struck with terror; they shall turn back and in a moment be put to shame.

Psalm 7:4

if I have repaid my ally with harm or plundered my foe without cause,

Psalm 89:28

Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and my covenant with him will stand firm.

Psalm 89:34

I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

Psalm 89:38

But now you have spurned and rejected him; you are full of wrath against your anointed.

Psalm 93:2

your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Keep the king’s command, and because of your sacred oath

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.

Acts 12:1

About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church.

1 Samuel 22:17

The king said to the guard who stood around him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David; they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not raise a hand to attack the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:10

This very day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you into my hand in the cave, and some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not raise my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’