Psalms 56:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psalms 56:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 22:15
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Luke 11:54
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Psalms 41:7
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
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: …
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.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Anger Bigotry Cruelty Enemy Forgiveness Hatred

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

David, in this psalm, by his faith throws himself into the hands of God, even when he had by his fear and folly thrown himself into the hands of the Philistines; it was when they took him in Gath, whither he fled for fear of Saul, forgetting the quarrel they had with him for killing Goliath; but they soon put him in mid of it, 1 Sam. 21:10, 11. Upon that occasion he changed his behaviour, but with…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5-6. A vivid picture of the conduct of malicious enemies.