Psalms 139:20

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They speak of You with evil intent; Your adversaries misuse Your name.

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  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
  • Exod 20:7 : 7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses His name.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Yet they say to God, 'Depart from us! We have no desire to know your ways.' 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we profit if we entreat him?
  • Ps 2:1-3 : 1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One. 3 Let us break their chains and throw off their ropes from us.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression. 9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth.
  • Ps 74:18 : 18 Remember this, O LORD, that the enemy has insulted You, and a foolish people has despised Your name.
  • Ps 74:22-23 : 22 Arise, O God, and defend Your cause; remember how fools insult You all day long. 23 Do not forget the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of those who rise against You, which continually ascends.
  • Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  • Isa 37:28-29 : 28 But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me. 29 Because of your raging against Me and your arrogance that has reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way you came.
  • Rev 13:6 : 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme against God, to slander His name, His dwelling, and those who dwell in heaven.

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  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21 Do I not hate those who hate You, LORD, and detest those who rise up against You?

    22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them as my enemies.

  • 5 I said, 'O LORD, have mercy on me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against you.'

  • Ps 83:2-3
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    2 O God, do not remain silent; do not be still or quiet, O Mighty One.

    3 For behold, your enemies are in an uproar; those who hate you have lifted up their heads in rebellion.

  • 19 If only You, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!

  • 19 Look at my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with violent hatred.

  • 10 For my enemies have spoken against me; those who watch my life conspire together.

  • 18 Remember this, O LORD, that the enemy has insulted You, and a foolish people has despised Your name.

  • Ps 109:2-3
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    2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

    3 They surrounded me with words of hatred and fought against me without cause.

  • Ps 38:19-20
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    19 I confess my iniquity; I am anxious because of my sin.

    20 But my enemies are vigorous and strong, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

  • Ps 35:19-20
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    19 Do not let my deceitful enemies rejoice over me; do not let those who hate me without cause wink maliciously.

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

  • 16 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face.

  • 3 Pay attention to me and answer me. My thoughts are restless, and I am distraught.

  • 10 How long, O God, will the enemy reproach? Will the adversary despise Your name forever?

  • 51 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the insults of many peoples.

  • 8 I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on a housetop.

  • 20 Let this be the Lord's reward to my adversaries and to those who speak evil against me.

  • 12 Do not kill them, Lord, or my people will forget. Scatter them by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

  • 23 But You, Lord, know all their plans to kill me. Do not forgive their wrongdoing, do not blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them collapse before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

  • 10 For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are filled with destruction. Their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues.

  • 41 You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and I destroyed those who hated me.

  • Ps 69:26-27
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    26 Let their encampments be desolate; may no one dwell in their tents.

    27 For they persecute those you have struck, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.

  • 11 You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their descendants from among mankind.

  • 7 When one of them comes to visit, he speaks falsely, his heart gathers wickedness, and when he goes out, he tells it to others.

  • 5 For strangers have risen against me, and ruthless ones seek my life; they have not set God before them. Selah.

  • 22 Your enemies will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will no longer exist.

  • 10 They gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.

  • 9 Protect me from the wicked who attack me, from my life’s enemies who surround me.

  • 2 Be gracious to me, O God, for mankind pursues me; all day long an attacker oppresses me!

  • 7 May my enemy be like the wicked and my adversary like the unrighteous!

  • 4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your assembly place; they have set up their signs as signs.

  • 40 You arm me with strength for battle; You humble my adversaries beneath me.

  • Ps 5:5-6
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    5 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with You.

    6 The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all evildoers.

  • 5 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

  • 11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me; in the name of the Lord, I cut them off.

  • 5 They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

  • 5 You are my King, O God; command victories for Jacob.

  • 7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses His name.

  • 16 so pursue them with your storm and terrify them with your tempest.

  • 27 Let them know that this is Your hand; that You, Lord, have done it.

  • 9 Do not grant the desires of the wicked, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

  • 61 You have heard their insults, O LORD, all their plots against me.

  • 12 Do not hand me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

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    5 For you have upheld my cause, my right; you sit on your throne judging righteously.