Psalms 139:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

For they speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

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  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which 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 him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.' 15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
  • Ps 2:1-3 : 1 Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
  • Ps 74:18 : 18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.
  • Ps 74:22-23 : 22 Arise, O God, plead Your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily. 23 Forget not the voice of Your enemies: the tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually.
  • Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 37:28-29 : 28 But I know your abode, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me. 29 Because your rage against me and your tumult have come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
  • Rev 13:6 : 6 And he opened his mouth to blaspheme against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

    22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

  • 5 My enemies speak evil of me, 'When shall he die, and his name perish?'

  • Ps 83:2-3
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    2 For, behold, your enemies make an uproar: and those who hate you have lifted up their head.

    3 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.

  • 19 Surely You will slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.

  • 19 Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • 10 For my enemies speak against me; and those who lie in wait for my soul take counsel together,

  • 18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.

  • Ps 109:2-3
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    2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are 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 But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong; and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

    20 Those also who render evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.

  • Ps 35:19-20
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    19 Let not my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

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

  • 16 For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.

  • 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?

  • 51 With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD, with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.

  • 8 My enemies reproach me all day long; those who are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • 20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • 23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

  • 10 Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • 41 You have also given me the necks of my enemies, that I might destroy those who hate me.

  • Ps 69:26-27
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    26 For they persecute the one whom you have struck, and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.

    27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into your righteousness.

  • 11 For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.

  • 7 All who hate me whisper together against me; they devise my harm against me.

  • 5 He shall repay evil to my enemies: cut them off in Your truth.

  • 22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.

  • 10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • 9 From the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

  • 2 My enemies would daily swallow me up, for there are many who fight against me, O Most High.

  • 7 Let my enemy be like the wicked, and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.

  • 4 Your enemies roar in the midst of Your congregations; they set up their banners for signs.

  • 40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy those who hate me.

  • Ps 5:5-6
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    5 The foolish shall not stand in your sight; you hate all workers of iniquity.

    6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • 5 Every day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

  • 11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me; but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

  • 5 They have repaid me evil for good and hatred for my love.

  • 5 Through You will we push down our enemies: through Your name will we tread them under who rise up against us.

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

  • 16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.

  • 27 That they may know that this is your hand, that you, LORD, have done it.

  • 9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • 61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their schemes against me;

  • 12 Do not deliver me to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence.

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    5 You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.