PSA 35:20 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
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ULT For they do not speak peace,
⇔ but they devise deceitful words against those in our land who live in peace.

UST They do not speak peacefully to people;
⇔ instead, they look for ways to tell lies about people in our land who do no harm to anyone.

BSB For they do not speak peace,
⇔ but they devise deceitful schemes
⇔ against those who live quietly in the land.

OEB ⇔ For it is not peace that they speak
⇔ of those who are quiet in the land;
⇔ but treacherous charges they plot.

WEBBE For they don’t speak peace,
⇔ but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET For they do not try to make peace with others,
⇔ but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting.

LSV For they do not speak peace,
And against the quiet of the land,
They devise deceitful words,

FBV They are not looking for peace; they invent malicious and deceptive schemes against innocent peace-loving people.[fn]

35:20 Literally, “the quiet ones of the land.”

T4T They do not talk peacefully to people;
⇔ instead, they seek ways to tell lies about people who are peaceful.

LEB • For they do not speak peace, but against the quiet ones of the land
• they plan deceitful words.

BBE For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

Moff No words of peace are theirs,
⇔ but crafty plots against the peacable;

JPS For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

ASV For they speak not peace;
⇔ But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

DRA No DRA PSA 35:20 verse available

YLT For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

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

RV For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

Wbstr For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

KJB-1769 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

KJB-1611 For they speake not peace: but they deuise deceitfull matters against them that are quiet in the land.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps For they speake not peace: but they imagine deceiptfull wordes agaynst them that liue quietly in the lande.
(For they speak not peace: but they imagine deceiptfull words against them that live quietly in the land.)

Gnva For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.
(For they speak not as friendes: but they imagine deceitful words against the quiet of the land. )

Cvdl And why? their comonynge is not for peace, but they ymagin false wordes agaynst ye outcastes of the londe.
(And why? their comonynge is not for peace, but they imagine false words against ye/you_all outcastes of the land.)

Wycl No Wycl PSA 35:20 verse available

Luth Denn sie trachten, Schaden zu tun und suchen falsche Sachen wider die Stillen im Lande;
(Because they/she/them trachten, Schaden to do/put and search_for falsche Sachen against the Stillen in_the land;)

ClVg No ClVg PSA 35:20 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

they do not speak peace

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not peace speak and,against quiet_of earth/land words_of deceitful devise, )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind the word peace, you could express the same idea with a verbal form such as “peacefully.” Alternate translation: “they do not speak peacefully to people”

devise deceitful words

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not peace speak and,against quiet_of earth/land words_of deceitful devise, )

Alternate translation: “look for ways to tell lies”

those in our land who live in peace

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not peace speak and,against quiet_of earth/land words_of deceitful devise, )

Alternate translation: “those who live peacefully in our land”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

live in peace

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not peace speak and,against quiet_of earth/land words_of deceitful devise, )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind the word peace, you could express the same idea with a verbal form. Alternate translation: “live peacefully with others” or “do no harm to anyone”

Parallel PSA 35:20