Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
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.
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.
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 I will praise his word. In God I have put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to 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, even as they have waited for my soul.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to thee for a wife. Only be thou valiant for me, and fight LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be
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 against him. Therefore Saul said to David, Thou shall 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 says thus, It is well. Thy servant shall have peace. But if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
1 Samuel 20:33
And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him. By this Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death.
Psalm 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt.
Isaiah 29:20-21
For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases. And all those who watch for iniquity are cut off,
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi
Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees having departed, they took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.
Matthew 26:61
But finally two FALSE witnesses having come, they said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it by three days.
Luke 11:54
waiting to ambush him, seeking to catch something out of his mouth so that they might accuse him.
Luke 22:3-6
And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, 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.