Psalm 140:2 - Revised Version 1885

² Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; Continually are they gathered together for war.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² They devise mischiefs in their heart; continually they gather together and stir up wars.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

Common English Bible

² who plot evil things in their hearts, who pick fights every single day!

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.

Psalm 140:2 Cross References

Psalm 120:7

I am for peace: But when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 21:11

For they intended evil against thee: They imagined a device, which they are not able to perform.

Psalm 36:4

He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 56:6

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

Psalm 59:3

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Psalm 62:3

How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay him, all of you, Like a bowing wall, like a tottering fence?

Proverbs 12:20

Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil: But to the counsellors of peace is joy.

Hosea 7:6

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

Nahum 1:11

There is one gone forth out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, that counselleth wickedness.