Psalm 140:2 - Tree of Life Version

² Rescue me, Adonai, from the evil man. Protect me from the violent men—

More versions

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 shalom and thus I speak, but they are for war!

Psalm 21:11

You destroy their offspring from earth, their seed from the children of men.

Psalm 36:4

His mouth’s words are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and do good.

Psalm 38:12

My friends and my companions stay away from my wound, and my kinsmen stand far off.

Psalm 56:6

All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psalm 59:3

Deliver me from workers of iniquity. Rescue me from bloodthirsty men.

Psalm 62:3

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress—I will never be moved.

Proverbs 12:20

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but those promoting shalom have joy.

Hosea 7:6

For their hearts are like an oven, as they wait in ambush. All night their anger smolders. In the morning it burns like a blazing fire.

Nahum 1:11

Out of you has come a schemer of evil against Adonai, a counselor of Belial.