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Myles Coverdale Bible

Psalms 56:5

They vexe me daylie in my wordes: all yt they ymagin, is to do me euell.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Enemy;   Malice;   Persecution;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - David;   Jonath Elem Rechokim, upon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jonath Elem Rehokim;   Psalms, Book of;   Song;   Wrest;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Covenant;   Strophic Forms in the Old Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They twist my words all day long;all their thoughts against me are evil.
Hebrew Names Version
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
King James Version
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
English Standard Version
All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
New Century Version
All day long they twist my words; all their evil plans are against me.
New English Translation
All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.
Amplified Bible
All day long they twist my words and say hurtful things; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
New American Standard Bible
All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
World English Bible
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Mine owne wordes grieue me dayly: all their thoughtes are against me to doe me hurt.
Legacy Standard Bible
All day long they distort my words;All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Berean Standard Bible
All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
Contemporary English Version
Enemies spend the whole day finding fault with me; all they think about is how to do me harm.
Complete Jewish Bible
In God — I praise his word — in God I trust; I have no fear; what can human power do to me?
Darby Translation
All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Easy-to-Read Version
My enemies are always twisting my words. They are always making plans against me.
George Lamsa Translation
All the day long they conspired against me and they devised evil against me.
Good News Translation
My enemies make trouble for me all day long; they are always thinking up some way to hurt me!
Lexham English Bible
All day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Literal Translation
All the day they pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
American Standard Version
All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Bible in Basic English
Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In God--I will praise His word--
King James Version (1611)
Euery day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against mee for euill.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My wordes dayly put me to sorow: all that they do imagine, is to do me euill.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices are against me for evil.
English Revised Version
All the day long they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In God Y schal preise my wordis; Y hopide in God, Y schal not drede what thing fleisch schal do to me.
Update Bible Version
All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Webster's Bible Translation
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.
New King James Version
All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
New Living Translation
They are always twisting what I say; they spend their days plotting to harm me.
New Life Bible
All day long they change my words to say what I did not say. They are always thinking of ways to hurt me.
New Revised Standard
All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All the day, they wrest, my words, Against me, all their devices are for mischief;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(55-6) All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil.
Revised Standard Version
All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Young's Literal Translation
All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts [are] for evil,
THE MESSAGE
They don't let up— they smear my reputation and huddle to plot my collapse. They gang up, sneak together through the alleys To take me by surprise, wait their chance to get me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Contextual Overview

1 Be mercifull vnto me (o God) for men wil treade me downe: they are daylie fightinge & troublinge me. 2 Myne enemies treade me daylie vnder their fete, for they be many, yt proudly fight agaynst me. 3 Neuerthelesse, whe I am afrayed, I put my trust in the. 4 I wil comforte my self in Gods worde, yee I wil hope in God, and not feare: What can flesh then do vnto me? 5 They vexe me daylie in my wordes: all yt they ymagin, is to do me euell. 6 They holde alltogether, & kepe them selues close: they marck my steppes, how they maye catch my soule. 7 But in vayne, for it shal escape the: and why? thou (o God) in thy displeasure shalt cast downe soch people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Isaiah 29:20, Isaiah 29:21, Matthew 22:15, Matthew 26:61, Luke 11:54, John 2:19, 2 Peter 3:16

all: 1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Samuel 18:21, 1 Samuel 18:29, 1 Samuel 20:7, 1 Samuel 20:33, Jeremiah 18:18, Luke 22:3-6

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:20 - ye thought Psalms 27:11 - mine enemies Psalms 41:7 - against Psalms 89:51 - footsteps Jeremiah 18:22 - and hid Amos 7:11 - Jeroboam Matthew 26:57 - General Mark 12:13 - they send Acts 6:13 - set

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Every day they wrest my words,.... Form, fashion, and shape them at their pleasure; construe them, and put what sense upon them they think fit. The word u is used of the formation of the human body, in Job 10:8; They put his words upon the rack, and made them speak what he never intended; as some men wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction, 2 Peter 3:16; and as the Jews wrested the words of Christ, John 2:19. The word has also the sense of causing vexation and grief, Isaiah 63:10; and so it may be rendered here, "my words cause grief" w; to his enemies; because he had said, in the preceding verses, that he would trust in the Lord, and praise his word, and not be afraid of men; just as the Sadducees were grieved at the apostles preaching, through Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, Acts 4:1. Or they caused grief to himself; for because of these his enemies reproached him, cursed him, and distressed him. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin render it, "they cursed my words"; or despised them, as the Ethiopic and Arabic versions:

all their thoughts [are] against me for evil; their counsels, schemes, and contrivances, were all formed to do him all the hurt and mischief they could.

u יעצבו "fingunt mea verba", Cocceius, Gusset. p. 628. "They painfully form and frame my words", Ainsworth. w "Dolore afficient", Montanus, Gejerus, Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every day they wrest my words - The word here rendered “wrest,” means literally to give pain, to grieve, to afflict; and it is used here in the sense of “wresting,” as if force were applied to words; that is, they are “tortured,” twisted, perverted. We have the same use of the word “torture” in our language. This they did by affixing a meaning to his words which he never intended, so as to injure him.

All their thoughts are against me for evil - All their plans, devices, purposes. They never seek my good, but always seek to do me harm.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 56:5. Every day they wrest my words — They have been spies on my conduct continually; they collected all my sayings, and wrested my words out of their proper sense and meaning, to make them, by inuendos, speak treason against Saul. They are full of evil purposes against me.


 
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