Psalms 139:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jude 1:15 : 15 To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.
  • Exod 20:7 : 7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. 15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
  • Ps 2:1-3 : 1 Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish? 2 The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying, 3 Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. 9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.
  • Ps 74:18 : 18 Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.
  • Ps 74:22-23 : 22 Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day. 23 Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.
  • Isa 37:23 : 23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 37:28-29 : 28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in. 29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
  • Rev 13:6 : 6 And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:21-22
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    80%

    21 Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?

    22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

  • Ps 41:5
    78%

    5 My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

  • Ps 83:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.

    3 They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.

  • Ps 139:19
    77%

    19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.

  • Ps 25:19
    77%

    19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

  • Ps 71:10
    76%

    10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

  • Ps 74:18
    76%

    18 Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

  • Ps 109:2-3
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    76%

    2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

    3 Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

  • Ps 38:19-20
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    76%

    19 But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

    20 They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.

  • Ps 35:19-20
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    75%

    19 Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

    20 For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

  • Ps 44:16
    75%

    16 Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

  • Ps 55:3
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    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Ps 74:10
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    10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

  • Ps 89:51
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    51 The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

  • Ps 109:20
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    20 Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

  • Ps 59:12
    74%

    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Jer 18:23
    74%

    23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • Ps 5:10
    74%

    10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • 2 Sam 22:41
    73%

    41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 69:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

    27 Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11 For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

  • Ps 41:7
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    7 All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

  • Ps 54:5
    73%

    5 Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

  • Job 8:22
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    22 Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

  • Job 16:10
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    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Ps 17:9
    72%

    9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • Ps 56:2
    72%

    2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

  • Job 27:7
    72%

    7 Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

  • Ps 74:4
    72%

    4 Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

  • Ps 18:40
    72%

    40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 5:5-6
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    72%

    5 The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

    6 You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

  • Ps 56:5
    72%

    5 Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

  • Ps 118:11
    72%

    11 They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

  • Ps 109:5
    72%

    5 They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

  • Ps 44:5
    72%

    5 Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

  • Exod 20:7
    72%

    7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

  • Ps 83:16
    72%

    16 Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.

  • Ps 109:27
    72%

    27 So that they may see that it is the work of your hand; that you, Lord, have done it.

  • Ps 140:9
    72%

    9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

  • Lam 3:61
    72%

    61 Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;

  • Ps 27:12
    72%

    12 Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

  • Ps 9:5
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    5 You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.