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Psalm 35:20

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35:20For they do not try to make peace with others,42

but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting.43

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Footnotes

  1. 42 Heb “for they do not speak peace.”
  2. 43 Heb “but against the quiet ones of the land words of deceit they plan.” The imperfect verbal forms in v. 20 highlight their characteristic behavior.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For they do not speak peace,

but against those who are quiet in the land

they devise words of deceit.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They do not speak peaceably,

but devise false accusations

against those who live quietly in the land.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For they do not speak in friendly ways,

but contrive fraudulent schemes

against those who live peacefully in the land.

NLTNew Living Translation

They don’t talk of peace;

they plot against innocent people who mind their own business.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For they do not speak peace,

but against the quiet ones of the land

they plan deceitful words.

KJV 1900King James Version

For they speak not peace:

But they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.