Wrest See also Pervert cause to decline after many to wrest judgment, Ex. 23:2. Thou shalt not wrest judgment, Deut. 16:19. Every day they wrest my words, Ps. 56:5. they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, 2Â Pet. 3:16. if ye will wrest them it shall be to your own destruction, Alma 13:20. some have wrested the scriptures, and have gone far astray, Alma 41:1. they do wrest the scriptures and do not understand them, D&C 10:63.