Psalms 56:5
All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
BSB
ASV
All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
KJV
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Every day they wrest my words,.... Form, fashion, and shape them at their pleasure; construe them, and put what sense upon them they think fit. The word (u) is used of the formation of the human body, in Job 10:8; They put his words upon the rack, and made them speak what he never intended; as some men wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction, 2Pe 3:16; and as the Jews wrested the words of Christ, Joh 2:
Such as this is the enmity of Satan and his agents against the kingdom of Christ and the interests of his holy religion, which if we cordially espouse, we must not think it strange to meet with such treatment as this, as though some strange thing happened to us.
Every day they wrest my words. This is a common mode of warfare among the ungodly. They put our language on the rack, they extort meanings from it which it cannot be made fairly to contain. Thus our Saviour's prophecy concerning the temple of his body, and countless accusations against his servants, were founded on wilful perversions. They who do this every day become great adepts in the art. A wolf can always find in a lamb's discourse a reason for eating him. Prayers are blasphemies if you choose to read them the wrong way upwards.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Luke 11:54waiting to catch Him in something He might say.
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Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Later, they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to catch Jesus in His words.
One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?
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Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
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So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of…
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2 Peter 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest…
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he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.