Parallel Verses
World English Bible
All day long they twist 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 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.
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 praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? 5 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
1 Samuel 18:17
Saul said to David, "Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles." For Saul said, "Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him."
1 Samuel 18:21
Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, "You shall this day be my son-in-law a second time."
1 Samuel 18:29
Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.
1 Samuel 20:7
If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
1 Samuel 20:33
Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
Psalm 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
Isaiah 29:20-21
For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off --
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices 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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
Matthew 26:61
and said, "This man 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 him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
Luke 22:3-6
Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered with the twelve.
John 2:19
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."