Psalms 120:4

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. 11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  • Prov 11:9 : 9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
  • Prov 11:12 : 12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
  • Prov 19:5 : 5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
  • Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue 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 every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
  • Deut 32:23-24 : 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
  • Ps 7:13 : 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

  • 5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    75%

    3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

    4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

  • 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • 10Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

  • Lam 3:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

    13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

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    22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

    23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

    24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

  • 7But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

  • 13He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

  • 2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

  • 4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

  • 18For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

  • Job 41:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

    29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

    30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

  • 14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

  • 6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

  • 18As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

  • Isa 33:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

    12And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

  • 4As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

  • 24With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

  • 7And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • 2And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

  • 13Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

  • 2For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

  • 7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

  • 12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

  • 5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

  • 13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

  • 13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  • 12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

  • 16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • 14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

  • 9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

  • 12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

  • 11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

  • 24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

  • 40They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

  • 16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • 31And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

  • 3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • 14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

  • 3The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

  • 19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.