Psalms 56:5
What does Psalms 56:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 56:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts <FI>are<Fi> for evil,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
- 1 Samuel 20:7
If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
- Luke 22:3
And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
- 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 a second time.
- Luke 11:54
laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.
- Isaiah 29:20
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;
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