King James Version
Psalms 35:20 in the King James Version says “For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 35 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.”
Psalms 35:20 · KJV
I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. much: Heb. strong
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
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“not peace”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
“For they speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“matters”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“but they devise”
H2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a maliciou
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