Psalms 35:20

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Ps 31:13 : 13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
  • Ps 36:3-4 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. 4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
  • Ps 38:12 : 12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Ps 64:4-6 : 4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly. 5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?" 6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
  • Ps 120:5-7 : 5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace. 7 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.
  • Ps 140:2-5 : 2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet. 5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
  • Dan 6:5 : 5 Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
  • Matt 12:19 : 19 He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
  • Matt 12:24 : 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."
  • Matt 26:4 : 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
  • Acts 23:15 : 15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
  • 1 Pet 2:22-23 : 22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

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  • Prov 12:20
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    20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

  • Ps 38:12
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    12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

  • Ps 140:2
    78%

    2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

  • Ps 35:19
    78%

    19 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

    3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

  • Ps 120:7
    76%

    7 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.

  • Ps 35:21
    76%

    21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

  • Ps 41:7
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    7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

  • Ps 55:20-21
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    20 He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

    21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

    5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

  • Ps 28:3
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    3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

  • Ps 139:20
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    20 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

  • Ps 83:2-3
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    2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

    3 They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 35:25
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    25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

  • Ps 140:9
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    9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Ps 35:7
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    7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

  • Rom 3:17
    73%

    17 The way of peace, they haven't known."

  • Jer 8:11
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    11 They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

  • Ps 71:10
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    10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

  • Ps 83:5
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    5 For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

  • Mic 6:12
    73%

    12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

  • Jer 23:17
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    17 They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.

  • Isa 59:8
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    8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

  • Job 15:35
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    35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

    9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Ps 55:3
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    3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

  • Ps 56:5-6
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    5 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

  • Jer 18:22
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    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

  • Ps 38:19
    72%

    19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

  • Mic 3:5
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    5 Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: