Parallel Verses
NET Bible
All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They vex me daily in my words: all that they imagine is to do me evil.
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 boast in his promise -- in God I trust, I am not afraid. What can mere men do to me? 5 All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise. 6 They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Peter 3:16
speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.
1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here's my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior for me and fight the battles of the Lord." For Saul thought, "There's no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!"
1 Samuel 18:21
Saul said, "I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him." So Saul said to David, "Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law."
1 Samuel 18:29
Saul became even more afraid of him. Saul continued to be at odds with David from then on.
1 Samuel 20:7
If he should then say, 'That's fine,' then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me.
1 Samuel 20:33
Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced that his father had decided to kill David.
Psalm 41:7
All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.
Isaiah 29:20-21
For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated --
Jeremiah 18:18
Then some people said, "Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God's word. Come on! Let's bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says."
Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.
Matthew 26:61
and declared, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.'"
Luke 11:54
plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.
Luke 22:3-6
Then Satan entered Judas, the one called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve.
John 2:19
Jesus replied, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again."