Psalm 35:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ For they speak not peace: But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For they speak not peace: But they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

Common English Bible

²⁰ 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 have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.

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 52:2

Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led 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.

Daniel 6:5

Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

Matthew 12:19

He shall not strive, nor cry aloud; Neither shall any one hear his voice in the streets.

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

Matthew 26:4

and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

Acts 23:15

Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to slay him.

Acts 25:3

asking favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying wait to kill him on the way.