Psalm 56:5
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Every day they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they twist my words and say hurtful things; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they twist my words and trouble my affairs; all their thoughts are against me for evil and my hurt.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
They twist my words all day long; all their thoughts against me are evil.
They twist my words all day long; all their thoughts against me are evil.
All day long they frustrate my pursuits; all their thoughts are evil against me.
In God — I praise his word — in God I trust; I have no fear; what can human power do to me?
Enemies spend the whole day finding fault with me; all they think about is how to do me harm.
All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
My enemies are always twisting my words. They are always making plans against me.
All the time, they bring trouble on me. They are always thinking of ways to hurt me.
All day long they hurt my cause. All their thoughts against me are evil.
All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they ·twist [find fault with] my words; all their evil ·plans [or thoughts] are against me.
Mine own words grieve me daily: all their thoughts are against me to do me hurt.
All day long my enemies twist my words. Their every thought is an evil plan against me.
My enemies make trouble for me all day long; they are always thinking up some way to hurt me!
They twist my words all day long; all their thoughts against me are evil.
All day long they twist my words. All their evil plans are against me.
All day long people distort what I say; all their schemes against me are for evil purposes.
Every day my life is filled with sorrow; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
They are always twisting what I say. All their thoughts are how to harm me.
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.
Every day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long my enemies twist my words. Their every thought is an evil plan against me.
I praise the word of God; I trust in God, I do not fear. What can mere flesh do to me?
All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
In God, whose word I praise, in God I place my trust and know no fear; what can people do to me?
All day long they twist my words; all their evil plans are against me.
All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.
All day long they twist my words. They are always making plans to destroy me.
All day long they twist my words; all their schemes are for my ruin.
All day long they twist my words; all their schemes are for my ruin.
All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they change my words to say what I did not say. They are always thinking of ways to hurt me.
They are always twisting what I say; they spend their days plotting to harm me.
All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Kol hayom they twist my words; all their machsh’vot (thoughts) are against me for rah (evil).
My own words grieve me daily. All their thoughts are against me, to do me hurt.
All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
In God—I keep praising His word— in God I trust, I will not fear. What can mere flesh do to me?
All day long they warp my words; all their thoughts against me are mangled by evil.
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
All day they cursed my words; against me all their thoughts were into evil. (All day long they cursed my words; all their thoughts were against me for evil.)
All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts [are] for evil,
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