Psalm 139:20 Parallel Translations
NASB: For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: They say wicked things about you. Your enemies misuse your name.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
ASV: For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take thy name in vain.
BBE: For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.
DBY: For they speak of thee wickedly, they take thy name in vain, thine enemies.
ERV: For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
JPS: Who utter Thy name with wicked thought, they take it for falsehood, even Thine enemies--
WBS: For they speak against thee wickedly, and thy enemies take thy name in vain.
WEB: For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
YLT: Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity are Thine enemies.
Psalm 139:20 Cross References
XREF:Exodus 20:7 "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:11 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Jude 1:15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
MHC: 139:17-24 God's counsels concerning us and our welfare are deep, such as cannot be known. We cannot think how many mercies we have received from him. It would help to keep us in the fear of the Lord all the day long, if, when we wake in the morning, our first thoughts were of him: and how shall we admire and bless our God for his precious salvation, when we awake in the world of glory! Surely we ought not to use our members and senses, which are so curiously fashioned, as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin. But our immortal and rational souls are a still more noble work and gift of God. Yet if it were not for his precious thoughts of love to us, our reason and our living for ever would, through our sins, prove the occasion of our eternal misery. How should we then delight to meditate on God's love to sinners in Jesus Christ, the sum of which exceeds all reckoning! Sin is hated, and sinners lamented, by all who fear the Lord. Yet while we shun them we should pray for them; with God their conversion and salvation are possible. As the Lord knows us thoroughly, and we are strangers to ourselves, we should earnestly desire and pray to be searched and proved by his word and Spirit. if there be any wicked way in me, let me see it; and do thou root it out of me. The way of godliness is pleasing to God, and profitable to us; and will end in everlasting life. It is the good old way. All the saints desire to be kept and led in this way, that they may not miss it, turn out of it, or tire in it.
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