Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For they speak of thee wickedly, Thy foes lift up their hand unto falsehood.
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.
American Standard Version
For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take thy name 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.
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 Wilt thou not, O GOD, slay the lawless one? Therefore, ye men of bloodshed, depart from me! 20 For they speak of thee wickedly, Thy foes lift up their hand unto falsehood. 21 Do I not hate, them who hate thee, O Yahweh? And loathe, them who rise up against thee?
Cross References
Jude 1:15
To execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly - of all their works of ungodliness, which they committed in ungodliness, and of all the hard things which they have spoken against him - sinners, ungodly!
Exodus 20:7
Thou shalt not utter the name of Yahweh thy God for falsehood, for Yahweh will not let him go unpunished who uttereth his name for falsehood.
Job 21:14-15
Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.
Psalm 2:1-3
Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?
Psalm 73:8-9
They mock, and wickedly command oppression, From on high, they command;
Psalm 74:18
Remember this, An enemy, hath reproached Yahweh, Yea, an impious people, have reviled thy Name.
Psalm 74:22-23
Arise! O God, plead thine own cause, Remember the reproach of thee, from the impious one, all the day:
Isaiah 37:23
Whom, hast thou reproached and insulted? And, against whom, hast thou lifted high thy voice? Yea thou hast proudly raised thine eyes, against the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 37:28-29
Howbeit, thine abode and thy coming out and thy going in, I know, - and thy raging against me.
Revelation 13:6
And he opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tent, - them, who, in heaven were tabernacling.