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Psalms 35:20

Psalms 35:20 is verse 20 of Psalms chapter 35, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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Psalms 35:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.

19 Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

20 For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

21 They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

22 O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 120:5

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Psalms 120:6

Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

Psalms 120:7

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

Psalms 31:13

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

Psalms 36:3

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

Psalms 36:4

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

Psalms 38:12

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

Psalms 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalms 64:4

ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

Psalms 64:5

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

Psalms 64:6

They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.

Psalms 140:2

who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

Psalms 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Psalms 140:4

Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.

Psalms 140:5

The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

Jeremiah 11:19

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

Daniel 6:5

Finally these men said, “We will never find any charge against this Daniel, unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God.”

Matthew 26:4

and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.

Acts 23:15

Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”

Acts 25:3

to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

Matthew 12:19

He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear His voice in the streets.

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”

1 Peter 2:22

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

1 Peter 2:23

When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

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