Psalms 56:5
In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: I will not fear what flesh can do against me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
In Context
4From the height of the day I shall fear: but I will trust in thee.
6All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil.
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:17And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hands of the Philistines be upon him.
1 Samuel 18:29And Saul began to fear David more: and Saul became David's enemy continually.
1 Samuel 20:33And Saul caught up a spear to strike him. And Jonathan understood that it was determined by his father to kill David.
Psalms 41:7And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things : his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.
Psalms 118:6The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man can do unto me.
Jeremiah 18:18And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 56:2-8
Prayer for Help under Oppression; Confidence in God. 1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High. 3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. 4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. 5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves together, they hide… Read the whole commentary →