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Psalm 35

Psa. 35:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For they speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
not peace
shalowm (Hebrew #7965)
from 7999; safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
KJV usage: X do, familiar, X fare, favour, + friend, X great, (good) health, (X perfect, such as be at) peace(-able, -ably), prosper(-ity, -ous), rest, safe(-ty), salute, welfare, (X all is, be) well, X wholly.
Pronounce: shaw-lome'
Origin: or shalom {shaw-lome'}
: but they devise
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
q deceitful
mirmah (Hebrew #4820)
fraud
KJV usage: craft, deceit(-ful, -fully), false, feigned, guile, subtilly, treachery.
Pronounce: meer-maw'
Origin: from 7411 in the sense of deceiving
matters
dabar (Hebrew #1697)
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Pronounce: daw-baw'
Origin: from 1696
against them that are quiet
ragea` (Hebrew #7282)
restful, i.e. peaceable
KJV usage: that are quiet.
Pronounce: raw-gay'-ah
Origin: from 7280
in the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Matt. 12:24• 24But the Pharisees, having heard it, said, This man does not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub, prince of demons. (Matt. 12:24)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 120:5‑7• 5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
 6My soul hath long dwelt with them that hate peace.
 7I am for peace; but when I speak, *they* are for war. (Psa. 120:5‑7)
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Psa. 31:13• 13For I have heard the slander of many--terror on every side--when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life. (Psa. 31:13)
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Psa. 36:3‑4• 3The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good.
 4He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil. (Psa. 36:3‑4)
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Psa. 38:12• 12And they that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long. (Psa. 38:12)
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Psa. 52:2• 2Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit. (Psa. 52:2)
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Psa. 64:4‑6• 4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
 5They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?
 6They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep. (Psa. 64:4‑6)
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Psa. 140:2‑5• 2Who devise mischiefs in their heart; every day are they banded together for war.
 3They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
 4Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked man, preserve me from the violent man, who devise to overthrow my steps.
 5The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah. (Psa. 140:2‑5)
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Jer. 11:19• 19And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they 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. (Jer. 11:19)
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Dan. 6:5• 5Then said these men, We shall not find any pretext against this Daniel, unless we find it against him touching the law of his God. (Dan. 6:5)
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Matt. 26:4• 4and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him; (Matt. 26:4)
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Acts 23:15• 15Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him. (Acts 23:15)
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Acts 25:3• 3asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way. (Acts 25:3)
quiet.
Matt. 12:19,24• 19He shall not strive or cry out, nor shall any one hear his voice in the streets;
 24But the Pharisees, having heard it, said, This man does not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub, prince of demons. (Matt. 12:19,24)
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1 Peter 2:22‑23• 22who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth;
 23who, when reviled, reviled not again; when suffering, threatened not; but gave himself over into the hands of him who judges righteously; (1 Peter 2:22‑23)
• They stir up strife against those who are for peace―the “quiet in the land” (vs. 20). (“Psalms 35” by H. Smith)
• The remnant (“the quiet in the land,” vs. 20) look to the Lord and ask “how long” will He leave them in such trying circumstances as they try to live for Him among the ungodly Jews in the land (vs. 17-22). (“Book 1.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "on the earth."