Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They vex me daily in my words: all that they imagine is to do me 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 King James verseion
All day long they pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for 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 I will comfort myself in God's word; yea, I will hope in God, and not fear. What can flesh then do unto me? 5 They vex me daily in my words: all that they imagine is to do me evil. 6 They hold all together, and keep themselves close, and mark my steps, when they lay wait for my soul.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Peter 3:16
yea, almost in every epistle, speaking of such things: among which are many things hard to be understood: which they that are unlearned and unstable pervert, as they do other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
1 Samuel 18:17
Then said Saul to David, "Behold, my eldest daughter Merab: her I will give thee to wife; only play the man and fight the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, "Mine hand shall not be upon him, but the hand of the Philistines."
1 Samuel 18:21
And he said, "I will give him her that she may be a snare to him, to bring the hand of the Philistines upon him." And Saul said to David, "Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law again."
1 Samuel 18:29
he was the more afraid of David, and became David's enemy forever.
1 Samuel 20:7
And if thy father say thus, 'It is well done,' then thy servant shall have peace. But and if he be angry, then be sure that wickedness is utterly concluded of him.
1 Samuel 20:33
Then Saul cast a spear at him to hit him, whereby Jonathan wist well, that it was utterly determined of his father to slay David.
Psalm 41:7
All mine enemies whisper together against me; even against me do they imagine this evil.
Isaiah 29:20-21
Then shall the furious people cease, and the mockers shall be put away, and all they that do wrong shall be plucked out,
Jeremiah 18:18
Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."
Matthew 22:15
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel, how they might tangle him in his words.
Matthew 26:61
and said, "This fellow said, I can destroy the temple of God, and build the it again in three days."
Luke 11:54
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something of his mouth, whereby they might accuse him.
Luke 22:3-6
Then entered Satan into Judas, whose surname was Iscariot, which was of the number of the twelve:
John 2:19
Jesus answered, and said unto them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will rear it up again."