Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take thy name in vain.
New American Standard Bible
And Your enemies
King James Version
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Holman Bible
Your enemies swear by You falsely.
International Standard Version
who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain.
A Conservative Version
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take [it] in vain.
Amplified
For they speak against You wickedly,
Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Bible in Basic English
For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.
Darby Translation
For they speak of thee wickedly, they take thy name in vain, thine enemies.
Julia Smith Translation
For they will say to thee for mischief; thine enemies were lifted up for vanity.
King James 2000
For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
Lexham Expanded Bible
who speak against you deceitfully. Your enemies take [your name] in vain.
Modern King James verseion
Who will speak against You maliciously? Your enemies are lifted up with vanity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For they speak unrighteously against thee; and thine enemies exalt themselves presumptuously.
NET Bible
They rebel against you and act deceitfully; your enemies lie.
New Heart English Bible
For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
The Emphasized Bible
For they speak of thee wickedly, Thy foes lift up their hand unto falsehood.
Webster
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thy enemies take thy name in vain.
World English Bible
For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
Youngs Literal Translation
Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity are Thine enemies.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 139:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God
19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men. 20 For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take thy name in vain. 21 Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Cross References
Jude 1:15
to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Exodus 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Job 21:14-15
And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Psalm 2:1-3
Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing?
Psalm 73:8-9
They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.
Psalm 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
Psalm 74:22-23
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
Isaiah 37:23
Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 37:28-29
But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
Revelation 13:6
And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, even them that dwell in the heaven.