Psalms 56:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

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  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.
  • 1 Sam 18:17 : 17 And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.
  • 1 Sam 18:21 : 21 And Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a cause of danger to him, and so that the hands of the Philistines may be against him. So Saul said to David, Today you are to become my son-in-law for the second time.
  • 1 Sam 18:29 : 29 And Saul's fear of David became all the greater, and he went on hating him, day by day.
  • 1 Sam 20:7 : 7 If he says, It is well, your servant will be at peace: but if he is angry, then it will be clear to you that he has an evil purpose in mind against me.
  • 1 Sam 20:33 : 33 And Saul, pointing his spear at him, made an attempt to give him a wound: from which it was clear to Jonathan that his father's purpose was to put David to death.
  • Ps 41:7 : 7 All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.
  • Isa 29:20-21 : 20 For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off: 21 Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
  • Matt 22:15 : 15 Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.
  • Matt 26:61 : 61 But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.
  • Luke 11:54 : 54 And watching him, for a chance to get something from his words which might be used against him.
  • Luke 22:3-6 : 3 And Satan came into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve. 4 And he went away and had a discussion with the chief priests and the rulers, about how he might give him up to them. 5 And they were glad, and undertook to give him money. 6 And he made an agreement with them to give him up to them, if he got a chance, when the people were not present.
  • John 2:19 : 19 And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

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    3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

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    60 You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.

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    7 All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

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    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Job 16:9-11
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    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

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    17 They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

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    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

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    2 For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

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    3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

  • Ps 31:13
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    13 False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

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    10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • Jer 20:10
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    2 How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

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