Psalms 120:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips. 10 Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again. 11 Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.
  • Prov 11:9 : 9 With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble.
  • Prov 11:12 : 12 He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 False lips are hated by the Lord, but those whose acts are true are his delight.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
  • Prov 19:5 : 5 A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.
  • Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell. 7 For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority; 8 But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
  • Deut 32:23-24 : 23 I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them. 24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
  • Ps 7:13 : 13 He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

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    3What punishment will he give you? what more will he do to you, you false tongue?

  • Ps 45:5
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    5Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    3Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

    4So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.

  • Job 6:4
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    4For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

  • Ps 140:10
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    10Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    12With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

    13He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • Deut 32:22-24
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    22For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

    23I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

    24They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

  • Ps 64:7
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    7But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

  • Ps 7:13
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    13He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

  • Ps 38:2
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    2For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

  • Ps 57:4
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    4My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,

  • Ps 144:6
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    6With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

    12And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

  • Ps 127:4
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    4Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.

  • Isa 7:24
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    24Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

  • Isa 49:2
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    2And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place;

  • 2 Sam 22:13
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    13Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

  • Ps 118:12
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    12They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

  • Ps 120:5
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    5Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.

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    13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

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    4His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

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    13His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

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    12Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

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    16Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

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    14Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

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    9Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

  • Ps 18:12
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    12Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

  • Hab 3:11
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    11At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

  • Job 20:24
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    24He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

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    16It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • Isa 1:31
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    31And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.

  • Ps 140:3
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    3Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

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    14The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

  • Nah 2:3
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    3For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.

  • Lam 4:19
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    19Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.