Psalms 139:20 · KJV
“For they speak against thee wickedly, {and} thine enemies take {thy name} in vain.”
— Psalms 139:20
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Psalms 139 — Context
{If} I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
20For they speak against thee wickedly, {and} thine enemies take {thy name} in vain.
21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Cross References
Jude 1:15
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard {speeches} which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Exodus 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Psalms 74:18
Remember this, {that} the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and {that} the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psalms 73:8-9
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly {concerning} oppression: they speak loftily.
Psalms 74:22-23
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms 2:1-3
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? {rage: or, tumultuously assemble} {imagine: Heb. meditate}
Isaiah 37:28-29
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. {abode: or, sitting}
Revelation 13:6
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.