Psalm 56:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

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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

So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

Psalm 118:6

With the Lord on my side I do not fear. What can man do to me?

Psalm 41:7

All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.

Psalm 49:6

men who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to 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

lying in wait for him, to catch at something he might say.

John 2:19

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

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

1 Samuel 18:17

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you for a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the Lord's battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.”

1 Samuel 18:21

Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”

1 Samuel 18:29

Saul was still more afraid of David. So Saul was David's enemy continually.

1 Samuel 20:33

But Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

1 Samuel 20:7

If he says, ‘Good!’ it will be well with your servant; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.