Psalms 56:5
(56:6) All the day they wrest my words: against me are all their thoughts for evil.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:17And Saul said to David, Behold, here is my eldest daughter Merab, her will I give to thee for wife: only be thou unto me a man of valor, and fight the Lord's battles. And Saul thought, Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
1 Samuel 18:29And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy all the time.
1 Samuel 20:33And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him: and Jonathan understood that it was determined on by his father to put David to death.
Psalms 41:7(41:8) Altogether whisper against me all that hate me: against me do they devise my injury.
Psalms 118:6The Lord is for me; I will not fear: what can a man do unto me?
Jeremiah 18:18And they said, Come, and let us contrive devices against Jeremiah; for the law will not be lost 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 listen to any of 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 →