Psalms 35:20 · KJV
“For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against {them that are} quiet in the land.”
— Psalms 35:20
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: {neither} let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. {wrongfully: Heb. falsely}
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, {and} said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen {it}.
Psalms 35 — Context
I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. {much: Heb. strong}
19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: {neither} let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. {wrongfully: Heb. falsely}
20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against {them that are} quiet in the land.
21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, {and} said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen {it}.
22{This} thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Cross References
Matthew 26:4
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill {him}.
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. {the tree...: Heb. the stalk with his bread}
1 Peter 2:22-23
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
Daniel 6:5
Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find {it} against him concerning the law of his God.
Psalms 64:4-6
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
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.
Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear {was} on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Psalms 36:3-4
The words of his mouth {are} iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, {and} to do good.