Psalms 56:5

3 When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

4 In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.

6 They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

7 In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
KJV
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
WEB
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
ASV
All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
DARBY
All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
BLB
All the day they wrest my words; their thoughts [are] all for evil against me.
ÅB
Hele dagen forvender de mine ord; alle deres tanker er meg imot til det onde.
OTB
Hele dagen vrir de mine ord;
Alle deres planer er mot meg for å skade.
B1930
Hele dagen forvender de mine ord; alle deres tanker er mig imot til det onde.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Matthew 22:15

    Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.

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  • Luke 11:54

    waiting to catch Him in something He might say.

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  • Psalms 41:7

    All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:

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  • Isaiah 29:20–21

    For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—

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  • 2 Peter 3:16

    He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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  • 1 Samuel 18:21

    “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”

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  • John 2:19

    Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

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  • 1 Samuel 18:17

    Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

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