Psalms 56:5
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 56:5 in other translations
| BSB | All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are for evil, |
| DARBY | All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. |
| BBE | Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. |
| Webster | Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. |
What does Psalms 56:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 56:5-6
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 56:1-7
Be merciful unto me, O God. This petition includes all the good for which we come to throne of grace. If we obtain mercy there, we need no more to make us happy. It implies likewise our best plea, not our merit, but God's mercy, his free, rich mercy. We may flee to, and trust the mercy of God, when surrounded on all sides by difficulties and dangers. His enemies were too hard for him, if God did not help him. He…
Psalms 56:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 56:5
- Matthew 22:15
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
- Luke 11:54
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
- Psalms 41:7
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
- 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: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
- 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.
- 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.
- John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
- 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.
- Luke 22:3-6
Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money. And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
- 1 Samuel 18:29
And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
- Matthew 26:61
And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
- Jeremiah 18:18
Then said they, 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
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Context
- Psalms 56:4
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
- Psalms 56:5
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
- Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms 56:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Todos los días me contristan mis negocios; contra mí son todos sus pensamientos para mal. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | En Dieu, je louerai sa parole; en Dieu je me confie: je ne craindrai pas; que me fera la chair? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Meine Worte verdrehen sie den ganzen Tag, alle ihre Gedanken sind wider mich zum Bösen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et eripuit animam meam de medio catulorum leonum. Dormivi conturbatus. Filii hominum dentes eorum arma et sagittæ, et lingua eorum gladius acutus. |