Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
All day long they pervert 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.
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 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 fear what flesh can do to me. 5 All day long they pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait for my soul.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction).
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Behold I will give you my older daughter Merab for a wife. Only you be a brave son for me and fight Jehovah's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.
1 Samuel 18:21
And Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a trap to him, and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. And Saul said to David a second time, Today you shall be my son-in-law.
1 Samuel 18:29
And Saul was still more afraid of David. And Saul became David's enemy continually.
1 Samuel 20:7
If he says so, It is well, peace will be to your servant, but if he is very angry, be sure that evil is determined by him.
1 Samuel 20:33
And Saul threw a spear at him to strike him, and by this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
Psalm 41:7
All those hating me whisper against me; they plot evil against me.
Isaiah 29:20-21
For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is destroyed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off;
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.
Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees left and took counsel that they might entangle Him in words.
Matthew 26:61
and said, This one said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.
Luke 11:54
lying in ambush for Him, and seeking to catch something out of His mouth, so that they might accuse Him.
Luke 22:3-6
And Satan entered into Judas, surnamed 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.