Parallel Verses
Webster
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thy 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.
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.
The Emphasized Bible
For they speak of thee wickedly, Thy foes lift up their hand unto falsehood.
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 bloody men. 20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thy enemies take thy name in vain. 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, 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 that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have impiously committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Exodus 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Job 21:14-15
Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Psalm 2:1-3
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psalm 73:8-9
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Psalm 74:18
Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psalm 74:22-23
Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Isaiah 37:23
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed; and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 37:28-29
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Revelation 13:6
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.