Psalms 35:20

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

Related Commentaries of Psalms 35:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they speak not peace - They seek a quarrel. They are unwilling to be on good terms with others, or to live in peace with them. The idea is th...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XXXV. Prayer against Treacherous Foes by One who is quiet in the land . Psalms 35:6 b should replace Psalms 35:5 b . Chaff driven before t...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

deceitful matters. Hebrew "words of frauds".
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

In the following verse, that he may cherish still greater confidence in God, David again declares, that he has to do with enemies of an irrecon...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. Speak not peace - as my peaceable attitu...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This is a prayer for the defeat and destruction of malignant enemies, whom the Psalmist has formerly befriended, and who now treat him with ungratefu...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Them that are quiet in the land ] the same as the 'poor' or 'meek'—the humble and patient righteous.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Quiet in the land. — For the construction, comp. Isaiah 23:8 : “The honourable of the earth.” They are evidently the pious Jews who wished to pre...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 35:1-28 THE psalmist's life is in danger. He is the victim of ungrateful hatred. False accusations of crimes that he never dreamed of are b...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

an Appeal to the Righteous Judge Psalms 35:18-28 Psalms 35:20 : “The Quiet in the Land” was the title adopted by holy men and women in German...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

There is agony in this song. The singer is sore beset with enemies. They are striving with him, fighting against him. They are plotting against him,...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! recollect the peaceable temper and meekness of Jesus: recollect the temper of his apostles and followers: recollect in all ages, and even now...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they speak not peace ,.... Meaning to himself, or any good man; as Joseph's brethren could not to him, Genesis 37:4 ; such were the men David h...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land. Ver. 20. For they speak not peace ] Which y...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Neither let them wink with the eye That is, mock me, or insult over me, as this phrase signifies. For they speak not peace They are enemies to al...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sorrowful Complaints; David's Appeal and Prayer to God. 17 Lord, how...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Verse 20 . They are enemies to all peaceable counsels; they breathe out nothing but threatenings and war. They use not only open violence, but decei...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Concerned By How Long His Affliction Is Going On He Points Out How False Their Accusations Are and Asks For Deliverance From Their Attempts To Bring...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This psalm, If It be as the inscription tells us a psalm of David, must have been composed either during his persecution by Saul or du...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 35:1 . Fight against them. This is another martial ode, or war song, in which David prays for victory over the army of Saul that came to fi...
The Biblical Illustrator

They devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. Sin approaching the unsuspecting “There is no temptation,” said John of...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM ascribed to David by the title, and with many characteristics of his early style—abrupt, impassioned, full of lively and gr...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Earnest Prayer for Relief
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For they speak not peace, their aim is not to bring quiet and happiness to the country; but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quie...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:22 ; 1 Peter 2:23 ; Acts 23:15 ; Acts 25:3 ; Daniel 6:5 ; Jeremiah 11:19 ; Matthew 12:19 ; Matthew 12:24 ; Matthew 26:4 ; Psalms...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For — They breathe out nothing but threatenings and war; they use not open violence but subtile artifices, against me and my followers, who desire...

²⁰ For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 35:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 35:20