Psalms 35:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Psalms 35:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 36:3-4
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. …
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Acts 23:15
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
Matthew 12:24
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
Psalms 64:4-6
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. …

Topics

Anger Consistency Cruelty Deceit Deception Enemy Falsehood Forgiveness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-28)

In these verses, as before, I. David describes the great injustice, malice, and insolence, of his persecutors, pleading this with God as a reason why he should protect him from them and appear against them. 1. They were very unrighteous; they were his enemies wrongfully, for he never gave them any provocation: They hated h 2be1 im without a cause; nay, for that for which they ought rather to have…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. deceitful matters--or, “words of deceit.” quiet in the land--the pious lovers of peace.