Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are for evil,
New American Standard Bible
All their
King James Version
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Holman Bible
all their thoughts against me are evil.
International Standard Version
All day long people distort what I say; all their schemes against me are for evil purposes.
A Conservative Version
All the day long they wrest my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
American Standard Version
All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Amplified
All day long they twist my words and say hurtful things;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Bible in Basic English
Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Darby Translation
All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Julia Smith Translation
All the day they will grieve my words: against me all their purposes for evil
King James 2000
Every day they twist my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All day they twist my words; all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.
Modern King James verseion
All day long they pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They vex me daily in my words: all that they imagine is to do me evil.
NET Bible
All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.
New Heart English Bible
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
The Emphasized Bible
All the day, they wrest, my words, Against me, all their devices are for mischief;
Webster
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
World English Bible
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 56:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call For God's Protection
4 In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I fear not what flesh doth to me. 5 All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are for evil, 6 They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul saith unto David, 'Lo, my elder daughter Merab -- her I give to thee for a wife; only, be to me for a son of valour, and fight the battles of Jehovah;' and Saul said, 'Let not my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.'
1 Samuel 18:21
and Saul saith, 'I give her to him, and she is to him for a snare, and the hand of the Philistines is on him;' and Saul saith unto David, 'By the second -- thou dost become my son-in-law to-day.'
1 Samuel 18:29
and Saul addeth to be afraid of the presence of David yet; and Saul is an enemy with David all the days.
1 Samuel 20:7
If thus he say: Good; peace is for thy servant; and if it be very displeasing to him -- know that the evil hath been determined by him;
1 Samuel 20:33
And Saul casteth the javelin at him to smite him, and Jonathan knoweth that it hath been determined by his father to put David to death.
Psalm 41:7
All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:
Isaiah 29:20-21
For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,
Jeremiah 18:18
And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,
Matthew 26:61
said, 'This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'
Luke 11:54
laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Luke 22:3-6
And the Adversary entered into Judas, who is surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve,
John 2:19
Jesus answered and said to them, 'Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'