Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

All day they twist my words; all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

New American Standard Bible

All day long they distort my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.

King James Version

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Holman Bible

They twist my words all day long;
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.

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

Context Readings

A Call For God's Protection

4 God, whose word I praise, God I trust; I do not fear. What can [mere] flesh do to me? 5 All day they twist my words; all their thoughts [are] against me for evil. 6 They attack, they hide, they watch my {steps}, as they [lie in] wait for my life.


Cross References

2 Peter 3:16

as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.

1 Samuel 18:17

Then Saul said to David, "Here [is] my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as [your] wife. Only be {a brave warrior} for me and fight the battles of Yahweh." For Saul thought, "My hand will not be against him, but let the hand of [the] Philistines be against him."

1 Samuel 18:21

And Saul thought, "I will give her to him, so that she may be a snare for him and the hand of [the] Philistines may be against him." So Saul said to David, "For a second [time] you can become my son-in-law today."

1 Samuel 18:29

Saul {was threatened by David still more}, so Saul {became a perpetual enemy of David}.

1 Samuel 20:7

If he says 'Good,' [it will mean] peace for your servant; but if he [is] very angry, know that {he has decided to do me harm}.

1 Samuel 20:33

Then Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. So Jonathan knew {that his father had decided} to kill David.

Psalm 41:7

All who hate me speak together against me. Against me they assume the {worst} for me:

Isaiah 29:20-21

For [the] tyrant shall be no more, and [the] scoffer shall come to an end. And all those lying in wait for evil shall be cut off;

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, "Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from [the] priest, nor advice from [the] wise man, nor [the] word from [the] prophet. Come and {let us bring charges against him}, and let us not listen attentively to any of his words."

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went {and consulted} so that they could entrap him with a statement.

Matthew 26:61

[and] said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild [it] within three days.'"

Luke 11:54

plotting to catch him with reference to something {he might say}.

Luke 22:3-6

And Satan entered into Judas, the one called Iscariot, who was 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!"

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