Psalms 56:5 · KJV
“Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts {are} against me for evil.”
— 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 unto me.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms 56 — Context
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
4In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts {are} against me for evil.
6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
7Shall they escape by iniquity? in {thine} anger cast down the people, O God.
Cross References
Matthew 22:15
And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any {man}: for thou regardest not the person of men.
Luke 11:54
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Isaiah 29:20-21
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
Psalms 41:7
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. {my...: Heb. evil to me}
2 Peter 3:16
As also in all {his} epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as {they do} also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
1 Samuel 18:21
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in {the one of} the twain.
John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Luke 22:3-6
Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.