Psalms 56:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.”
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“All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.”
King James Version · Public Domain“All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts <FI>are<Fi> for evil,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 56:5 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 18:17Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
- 1 Samuel 18:21“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
- 1 Samuel 18:29he grew even more afraid of David. So from then on Saul was David’s enemy.
- 1 Samuel 20:7If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
- 1 Samuel 20:33Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
- 1 Kings 18:2So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
- Psalms 41:7All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
- Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
- Psalms 118:6The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
- Isaiah 29:20For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
- Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
- Matthew 26:61and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
- Luke 11:54waiting to catch Him in something He might say.
- Luke 22:3Then Satan entered Judas Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve.
- John 2:19Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
- 2 Peter 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
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