Psalms 56:5

3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

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 went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

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  • Luke 11:54

    Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

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  • Psalms 41:7

    All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

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  • Isaiah 29:20–21

    For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

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  • 2 Peter 3:16

    As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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  • 1 Samuel 18:21

    And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

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  • John 2:19

    Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

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  • 1 Samuel 18:17

    And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

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