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Psalm 56

Psa. 56:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Every day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
they wrest
`atsab (Hebrew #6087)
properly, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger
KJV usage: displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.
Pronounce: aw-tsab'
Origin: a primitive root
my words
dabar (Hebrew #1697)
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Pronounce: daw-baw'
Origin: from 1696
z: all their thoughts
machashabah (Hebrew #4284)
from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
KJV usage: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
Pronounce: makh-ash-aw-baw'
Origin: or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}
are against me for evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
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Luke 11:54• 54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. (Luke 11:54)

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Isa. 29:20‑21• 20For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
 21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. (Isa. 29:20‑21)
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Matt. 22:15• 15Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. (Matt. 22:15)
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Matt. 26:61• 61And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. (Matt. 26:61)
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Luke 11:54• 54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. (Luke 11:54)
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John 2:19• 19Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. (John 2:19)
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2 Peter 3:16• 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. (2 Peter 3:16)
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1 Sam. 18:17,21,29• 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.
 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.
 29And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually. (1 Sam. 18:17,21,29)
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1 Sam. 20:7,33• 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.
 33And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David. (1 Sam. 20:7,33)
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Jer. 18:18• 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. (Jer. 18:18)
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Luke 22:3‑6• 3Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
 4And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
 5And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
 6And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude. (Luke 22:3‑6)
• {v.5-6} Every day the enemy perverts the words of the godly: with evil intent they consult together and secretly watch his steps, seeking to take his life. (“Psalms 56” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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All the day long they wrestp my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "torture."