Psalm 140:2
New International Version
who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day.

New Living Translation
those who plot evil in their hearts and stir up trouble all day long.

English Standard Version
who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually.

Berean Standard Bible
who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

King James Bible
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

New King James Version
Who plan evil things in their hearts; They continually gather together for war.

New American Standard Bible
Who devise evil things in their hearts; They continually stir up wars.

NASB 1995
Who devise evil things in their hearts; They continually stir up wars.

NASB 1977
Who devise evil things in their hearts; They continually stir up wars.

Legacy Standard Bible
Who think up evil things in their hearts; They continually stir up wars.

Amplified Bible
They devise evil things in their hearts; They continually [gather together and] stir up wars.

Christian Standard Bible
who plan evil in their hearts. They stir up wars all day long.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
who plan evil in their hearts. They stir up wars all day long.

American Standard Version
Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For they have conceived evil in their heart and they have provoked disputes all day

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war.

Contemporary English Version
They think up evil plans and always cause trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.

English Revised Version
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually do they gather themselves together for war.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They plan evil things in their hearts. They start fights every day.

Good News Translation
They are always plotting evil, always stirring up quarrels.

International Standard Version
who craft evil plans in their minds, inciting wars every day.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who devise evil things in their heart; Every day do they stir up wars.

Literal Standard Version
Who have devised evils in the heart, | All the day they assemble [for] wars.

Majority Standard Bible
who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

New American Bible
From those who plan evil in their hearts, who stir up conflicts every day,

NET Bible
who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

New Revised Standard Version
who plan evil things in their minds and stir up wars continually.

New Heart English Bible
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they assembled for war.

World English Bible
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Young's Literal Translation
Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble for wars.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Rescue Me, O LORD, From Evil Men
1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence, 2who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long. 3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah…

Cross References
Psalm 7:14
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

Psalm 36:4
Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

Psalm 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalm 56:6
They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

Proverbs 6:14
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

Isaiah 59:4
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Hosea 7:15
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.


Treasury of Scripture

Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

imagine

Psalm 2:1,2
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? …

Psalm 21:11
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Psalm 36:4
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

continually

Psalm 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Psalm 120:7
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

1 Samuel 23:19-24
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? …

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Psalm 140
1. David prays to be delivered from Saul and Doeg
8. He prays against them
12. He comforts himself by confidence in God














(2) Imagine . . .--Or, contrive, plot.

Gathered together.--This translation follows the analogy of Psalm 56:6. Others render, "dwell with wars." But it is preferable to derive from a root meaning to incite: "They are continually stirring up wars." It is the situation described in Psalm 120:7 and frequently; Israel would be at peace, but within and without are those ever trying to involve her in troubles.

Verse 2. - Which imagine mischiefs in their heart (comp. Psalm 28:3; Psalm 36:4; Psalm 62:3). Continually are they gathered together for war; rather, continually do they stir up wars (comp. Psalm 68:30; Psalm 120:7).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
who
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

devise
חָשְׁב֣וּ (ḥā·šə·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2803: To think, account

evil
רָע֣וֹת (rā·‘ō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

in their hearts
בְּלֵ֑ב (bə·lêḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

and stir up
יָג֥וּרוּ (yā·ḡū·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1481: To turn aside from the road, sojourn, to shrink, fear, to gather for, hostility

war
מִלְחָמֽוֹת׃ (mil·ḥā·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 4421: A battle, war

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

day long.
י֝֗וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day


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