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Psalms 56:5

Psalms chapter 56 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Context

v.4In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?

v.5This passage

v.6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

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;