New King James Version
Psalms 56:5
5All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 56:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
- New International Version (NIV)All day long they twist my words; all their schemes are for my ruin.
- English Standard Version (ESV)All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They are always twisting what I say; they spend their days plotting to harm me.
Context of Psalms 56:5
3Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. 4In God (I will praise His word), In God I have put my trust; I will not fear. What can flesh do to me? All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil. 6They gather together, They hide, they mark my steps, When they lie in wait for my life. 7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God!
Read all of Psalms 56Psalms 56:5 word by word
כָּל־הַ֭יּוֹם דְּבָרַ֣י יְעַצֵּ֑בוּ עָלַ֖י כָּל־מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֣ם לָרָֽע׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 56:5
- Isaiah 29:20For the terrible one is brought to nothing, The scornful one is consumed, And all who watch for iniquity are cut off—
- Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.
- Matthew 26:61and said, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.’ ”
- Luke 11:54lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, that they might accuse Him.
- John 2:19Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
- 2 Peter 3:16as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
- 1 Samuel 18:17Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
- 1 Samuel 20:7If he says thus: ‘It is well,’ your servant will be safe. But if he is very angry, be sure that evil is determined by him.
- Jeremiah 18:18Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans 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 attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
- Luke 22:3Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve.
Commentaries on Psalms 56:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Every day they wrest my words - They have been spies on my conduct continually; they collected all my sayings, and wrested my words out of their proper sense and meaning, to make them, by inuendos, speak treason against Saul. They are full of evil purposes against me.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Every day they wrest my words - The word here rendered “wrest,” means literally to give pain, to grieve, to afflict; and it is used here in the sense of “wresting,” as if force were applied to words; that is, they are “tortured,” twisted, perverted. We have the same use of the word “torture” in our language. This they did by affixing a meaning to his words which he never intended, so as to injure him. All their thoughts are against me for evil - All their…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7The psalmist specifies his charge against his attackers as he prays for their evil to end.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-65-6. A vivid picture of the conduct of malicious enemies.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 56
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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