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Psalms Chapter 56 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 56:5

All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
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BBE Psalms 56:5

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
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DARBY Psalms 56:5

All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
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KJV Psalms 56:5

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
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WBT Psalms 56:5

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.
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WEB Psalms 56:5

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
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YLT Psalms 56:5

All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts `are' for evil,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Every day they wrest my words; rather, all the day long. they wrest (or, torture) my words. They seek to give my words an evil meaning, and so to misrepresent me to Achish, their king. As Canon Cook says, "This description is singularly applicable to David's position among the envious nobles at the court of Achish Still, it does not speak of his having been actually arrested, and does not, therefore, seem to have suggested the inscription." All their thoughts are against his for evil. They are entirely bent on doing the psalmist some hurt. What they really seek is his life (ver. 6); but, short of that, they would gladly do him some mischief.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Wrest.--Properly, afflict; and so some, "injure my cause." But "torture my words" is intelligible.