Psalm 56:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Every day they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ All day long they twist my words and trouble my affairs; all their thoughts are against me for evil and my hurt.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Common English Bible

⁵ All day long they frustrate my pursuits; all their thoughts are evil against me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And he has rescued my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men: their teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue is a sharp sword.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ and 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.

Psalm 56:5 Cross References

1 Kings 18:2

And Eli´jah went to show himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.

Psalm 118:6

The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

Psalm 41:7

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

Psalm 49:6

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

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.

Matthew 22:15

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

Matthew 26:61

and said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

Luke 11:54

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

John 2:19

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

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 18:17

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.

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.

1 Samuel 18:29

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

1 Samuel 20:33

And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

1 Samuel 20:7

If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.