Psalms 120:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

It is as the sharpe arrowes of a mightie man, and as the coales of iuniper.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Thine arrowes are sharpe to pearce the heart of the Kings enemies: therefore the people shall fall vnder thee.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 So shal God destroy thee for euer: he shal take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, & their tongue a sharpe sworde.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 As for the chiefe of them, that compasse me about, let the mischiefe of their owne lippes come vpon them. 10 Let coles fal vpon them: let him cast them into the fire, & into the deepe pits, that they rise not. 11 For the backbiter shall not be established vpon the earth: euill shall hunt the cruell man to destruction.
  • Prov 11:9 : 9 An hypocrite with his mouth hurteth his neighbour: but the righteous shall be deliuered by knowledge.
  • Prov 11:12 : 12 He that despiseth his neighbour, is destitute of wisedome: but a man of vnderstanding will keepe silence.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked worketh a deceitful worke: but hee that soweth righteousnes, shall receiue a sure rewarde.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 The lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deale truely are his delite.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 A wicked man diggeth vp euill, and in his lippes is like burning fire.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.
  • Prov 19:5 : 5 A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall not escape.
  • Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall perish.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth. 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man. 8 But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable and murtherers, and whoremogers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, & all liars shall haue their part in the lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
  • Deut 32:23-24 : 23 I will spend plagues vpon them: I will bestowe mine arrowes vpon them. 24 They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I will also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the venime of serpents creeping in the dust.
  • Ps 7:13 : 13 Hee hath also prepared him deadly weapons: hee will ordeine his arrowes for them that persecute me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 120:3
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    3What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee?

  • Ps 45:5
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    5Thine arrowes are sharpe to pearce the heart of the Kings enemies: therefore the people shall fall vnder thee.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    3Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

    4To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.

  • Job 6:4
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    4For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.

  • Ps 140:10
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    10Let coles fal vpon them: let him cast them into the fire, & into the deepe pits, that they rise not.

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    12He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.

    13Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.

  • Deut 32:22-24
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    74%

    22For fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burne vnto the bottome of hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines.

    23I will spend plagues vpon them: I will bestowe mine arrowes vpon them.

    24They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I will also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the venime of serpents creeping in the dust.

  • Ps 64:7
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    7But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.

  • Ps 7:13
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    13Hee hath also prepared him deadly weapons: hee will ordeine his arrowes for them that persecute me.

  • Ps 38:2
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    2For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me.

  • Ps 57:4
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    4My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, & their tongue a sharpe sworde.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For wickednesse burneth as a fire: it deuoureth the briers and the thornes and will kindle in the thicke places of the forest: and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.

  • Job 41:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28(41:19) The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:

    29(41:20) The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.

    30(41:21) Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:

  • Ps 144:6
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    6Cast forth the lightning & scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and consume them.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18As he that faineth himselfe mad, casteth fire brands, arrowes, and mortall things,

  • Isa 33:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Ye shall conceiue chaffe, and bring forth stubble: the fire of your breath shall deuoure you.

    12And the people shall be as the burning of lime: and as the thornes cut vp, shall they be burnt in the fire.

  • Ps 127:4
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    4As are the arrowes in the hand of ye strong man: so are the children of youth.

  • Isa 7:24
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    24With arrowes and with bowe shall one come thither: because all the land shall be briers and thornes.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7And I will prepare destroyers against thee, euery one with his weapons, and they shall cut downe thy chiefe cedar trees, and cast them in the fire.

  • Isa 49:2
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    2And hee hath made my mouth like a sharpe sworde: vnder the shadowe of his hande hath he hid mee, and made me a chosen shafte, and hid me in his quiuer,

  • 2 Sam 22:13
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    13At the brightnesse of his presence the coles of fire were kindled.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.

  • Ps 118:12
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    12They came about mee like bees, but they were quenched as a fire of thornes: for in the Name of the Lord I shall destroy them.

  • Ps 120:5
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    5Woe is to me that I remaine in Meschech, and dwell in the tentes of Kedar.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.

  • Lam 2:4
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    4He hath bent his bowe like an enemie: his right hand was stretched vp as an aduersarie, and slewe al that was pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he powred out his wrath like fire.

  • Job 16:13
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    13His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12Therefore shalt thou put them aparte, and the strings of thy bowe shalt thou make readie against their faces.

  • Jer 5:16
    70%

    16Whose quiuer is as an open sepulchre: they are all very strong.

  • Isa 47:14
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    14Beholde, they shall be as stubble: the fire shall burne them: they shal not deliuer their owne liues from the power of the flame: there shalbe no coles to warme at, nor light to sit by.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.

  • Ps 18:12
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    12At the brightnes of his presence his clouds passed, haylestones and coles of fire.

  • Hab 3:11
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    11The sunne and moone stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrowes they went, and at the bright shining of thy speares.

  • Job 20:24
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    24He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40They shall also bring vp a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swordes.

  • Ps 80:16
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    16It is burnt with fire and cut downe: and they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • Isa 1:31
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    31And the strong shalbe as towe, and the maker thereof, as a sparke: and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.

  • Ps 140:3
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    3They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

  • Nah 2:3
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    3The shield of his mightie men is made red: the valiant men are in skarlet: the charets shalbe as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and the firre trees shall tremble.

  • Lam 4:19
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    19Our persecuters are swifter then the egles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, and layed waite for vs in the wildernes.