Psalms 7:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:41 : 41 If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
Ps 85:4 : 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, And cause thine indignation toward us to cease.
Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
Isa 34:5 : 5 For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Jer 31:18-19 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished; 10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree. 11 And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
Ezek 21:23 : 23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths unto them; but he bringeth iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Matt 3:10 : 10 And even now the axe lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 7:13-15
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13He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts].
14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
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Ps 37:14-15
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14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.
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Lam 3:11-13
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74%
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
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13He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Deut 32:41
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41If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
Ps 21:12
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12For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
Ps 64:3
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3Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Ps 37:32
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32The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.
Job 20:24
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24He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.
Isa 31:2
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2Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
Job 9:13
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13God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.
Job 41:28
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28The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.
Ps 58:7
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7Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
Ps 64:7
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7But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
Job 39:22-23
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22He mocketh at fear, and is not dismayed; Neither turneth he back from the sword.
23The quiver rattleth against him, The flashing spear and the javelin.
Prov 21:29
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29A wicked man hardeneth his face; But as for the upright, he establisheth his ways.
Isa 10:7
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7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
Ps 37:12
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12The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Lam 2:4
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4He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.
Prov 24:18
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18Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
Job 27:22
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22For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.
Job 16:13
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Lam 3:3
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Job 15:24
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24Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Ps 36:4
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Deut 32:23
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23I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
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11Then shall he sweep by [as] a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty, [even] he whose might is his god.
Ezek 21:10-11
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68%
10it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.
11And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
Isa 5:28
68%
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Prov 7:23
68%
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1He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Prov 24:11
68%
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5Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure:
Job 41:26
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26If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
Isa 57:17
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17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid [my face] and was wroth; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
Ps 55:20
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20He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.
Exod 21:13
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13And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
1 Sam 20:7
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7If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
Hos 7:6
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6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Prov 6:34
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34For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Prov 19:19
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19A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver [him], thou must do it yet again.