Psalms 56:5

World English Bible (2000)

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
  • 1 Sam 18:17 : 17 Saul said to David, "Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles." For Saul said, "Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him."
  • 1 Sam 18:21 : 21 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, "You shall this day be my son-in-law a second time."
  • 1 Sam 18:29 : 29 Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.
  • 1 Sam 20:7 : 7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
  • 1 Sam 20:33 : 33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
  • Ps 41:7 : 7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
  • Isa 29:20-21 : 20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off-- 21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; 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 not give heed to any of his words.
  • Matt 22:15 : 15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
  • Matt 26:61 : 61 and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"
  • Luke 11:54 : 54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
  • Luke 22:3-6 : 3 Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered with the twelve. 4 He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them. 5 They were glad, and agreed to give him money. 6 He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.
  • John 2:19 : 19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

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