Psalms 35:20 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 35:20

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

KJV

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ASV

For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

WEB

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

YLT

For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

DBT

For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Matthew 26:4
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
Psalms 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
1 Peter 2:22–23
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
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.

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9 And my soul shall be joyful in the L ORD : it shall rejoice in his salvation. 10 All my bones shall say, L ORD , who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

All the hellish arts of malice and falsehood are made use of to render them odious or despicable; their words and actions are misconstrued, even that which they abhor is fathered upon them, laws are made to ensnare them ( Dan. vi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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