Psalm 120:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

New Living Translation
I search for peace; but when I speak of peace, they want war!

English Standard Version
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war!

Berean Study Bible
I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

New American Standard Bible
I am for peace, but when I speak, They are for war.

NASB 1995
I am for peace, but when I speak, They are for war.

NASB 1977
I am for peace, but when I speak, They are for war.

Amplified Bible
I am for peace, but when I speak, They are for war.

Christian Standard Bible
I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Contemporary English Version
I am in favor of peace, but when I speak of it, all they want is war.

Good News Translation
When I speak of peace, they are for war.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I am for peace, but when I talk about it, they only talk about war.

International Standard Version
I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they are in favor of war.

NET Bible
I am committed to peace, but when I speak, they want to make war.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

New King James Version
I am for peace; But when I speak, they are for war.

King James 2000 Bible
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

New Heart English Bible
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

World English Bible
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.

American King James Version
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

American Standard Version
I am for peace: But when I speak, they are for war.

A Faithful Version
I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Darby Bible Translation
I [am for] peace; but when I speak, they [are] for war.

English Revised Version
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Webster's Bible Translation
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
I seeke peace, and when I speake thereof, they are bent to warre.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
I am a man of peace: but because I do speake therof, they prepare them selues to battayle.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
I laboured for peace, but when I spake therof, they made them to batayll.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
I—peace, and when I speak they [are] for war!

Young's Literal Translation
I am peace, and when I speak they are for war!

Smith's Literal Translation
I peace: and when I shall speak, they for war.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
With them that hate peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.

Catholic Public Domain Version
With those who hated peace, I was peaceful. When I spoke to them, they fought against me without cause.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And I have spoken peace and they have been fighting with me.

Lamsa Bible
I am for peace; but when I speak they fight with me.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
I am all peace; But when I speak, they are for war.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I was peaceable among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.
















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