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Psalm 35:20 KJV
Psalms · chapter 35 · verse 20
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.Psalm 35:20 · King James Version
Psalm 35:20 in context
18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
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.
22This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- deceitfulmirmâhfraudH4820 →
- mattersdâbâra wordH1697 →
- devisechâshabproperly, to plait or interpenetrateH2803 →
- speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- peaceshâlôwmsafeH7965 →
- quietrâgêaʻrestfulH7282 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-28