Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me 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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are 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 will I praise his word, in God I put my confidence: I will not fear; what can flesh do unto me? 5 All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Behold my eldest daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight Jehovah's battles. But Saul thought, My hand shall not be upon him, but the hand of the Philistines shall be upon him.
1 Samuel 18:21
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him. And Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law a second time.
1 Samuel 18:29
And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.
1 Samuel 20:7
If he say thus, It is well, thy servant shall have peace; but if he be very wroth, be sure that evil is determined by him.
1 Samuel 20:33
Then Saul cast the spear at him to smite him; and Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death.
Psalm 41:7
All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.
Isaiah 29:20-21
For the terrible one shall come to nought, and the scorner shall be no more, and all that watch for iniquity shall be cut off,
Jeremiah 18:18
And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Matthew 22:15
Then went the Pharisees and held a council how they might ensnare him in speaking.
Matthew 26:61
and said, He said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and in three days build it.
Luke 11:54
watching him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Luke 22:3-6
And Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariote, being of the number of the twelve.
John 2:19
Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.