Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Parallel translations
- WEB All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- BSB All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
- NKJV All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- NASB All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- NLT They are always twisting what I say; they spend their days plotting to harm me.
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Quick answer
David's enemies twist his words and scheme evil against him constantly. It records the slander and malice he endures.
Overview
David laments that his foes distort everything he says and devote their thoughts to harming him. The misuse of his words shows the depth of their hostility. The verse legitimizes bringing to God the pain of being misrepresented and plotted against.
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- Matt 22:15Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
- Luke 11:54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
- Isa 29:20–21For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
- Ps 41:7All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
- 2 Pet 3:16As 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 Sam 18:21And 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.
- 1 Sam 18:17And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
- John 2:19Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
- Luke 22:3–6Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
- Jer 18:18Then said they, 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
- 1 Sam 18:29And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
- Matt 26:61And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
- 1 Sam 20:7If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
- 1 Sam 20:33And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
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