Psalms 7:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

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  • Deut 32:41 : 41 If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
  • Ps 85:4 : 4 Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
  • Isa 34:5 : 5 For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near: 7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
  • Jer 31:18-19 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. 19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.
  • Ezek 18:30 : 30 For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.
  • Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished: 10 It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ... 11 And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.
  • Ezek 21:23 : 23 And this answer given by secret arts will seem false to those who have given their oaths and have let them be broken: but he will keep the memory of evil-doing so that they may be taken.
  • Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

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

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  • Ps 11:2
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    2 See, 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.

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    11 God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    14 The 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.

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  • Lam 3:11-13
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    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

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    41 If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12 Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

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

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    32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

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

  • Isa 31:2
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    2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

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    13 God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

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

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

  • Job 39:22-23
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    22 Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

    23 Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

  • Prov 21:29
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    29 The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

  • Isa 10:7
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    12 The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

  • Lam 2:4
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    4 His 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.

  • Prov 24:18
    69%

    18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

  • Job 27:22
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    22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

  • Job 16:13
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    13 His 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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    3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

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    4 He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

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

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    10 It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...

    11 And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.

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    68%

    23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

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    1 A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

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    20 If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;

  • Ps 2:5
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    5 Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:

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    17 I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

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    20 He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

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    13 But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

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    7 If he says, It is well, your servant will be at peace: but if he is angry, then it will be clear to you that he has an evil purpose in mind against me.

  • Hos 7:6
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    6 For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.

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    19 A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.