Parallel Verses

King James 2000

Every 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

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, I will praise his word, in God, I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. 5 Every day they twist my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.


Cross References

2 Peter 3:16

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

1 Samuel 18:17

And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you as your wife: only be you valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines 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 against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, you shall this day be my son-in-law.

1 Samuel 18:29

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

1 Samuel 20:7

If he say thus, It is well; your servant shall have peace: but if he is very angry, then be sure that evil is determined by him.

1 Samuel 20:33

And Saul cast a javelin at him to strike him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

Psalm 41:7

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

Isaiah 29:20-21

For the ruthless one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

Jeremiah 18:18

Then said they, Come, and let us devise plots 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 attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Matthew 22:15

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

Matthew 26:61

And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

Luke 11:54

Lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Luke 22:3-6

Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.

John 2:19

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

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