Parallel Verses

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.

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

Context Readings

A Call For God's Protection

4 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? 5 All day long they distort my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life.

Cross References

2 Peter 3:16

as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

1 Samuel 18:17

Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him."

1 Samuel 18:21

Saul thought, "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time,"You shall now be my son-in-law."

1 Samuel 18:29

Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David's enemy continually.

1 Samuel 20:7

If he says, 'Good!' it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him.

1 Samuel 20:33

But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

Psalm 41:7

All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.

Isaiah 29:20-21

For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words."

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.

Matthew 26:61

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

Luke 11:54

lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.

Luke 22:3-6

Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve.

John 2:19

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

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