Psalms 64:3
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
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- Ps 58:7 : 7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
- Ps 11:2 : 2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
- 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.
- Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
- Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
- Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
- Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
- Jas 3:6-8 : 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.
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7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
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8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
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14 The 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.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
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13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
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3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
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3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
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7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
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2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
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9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
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12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
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11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
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2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
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12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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18 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
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21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
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2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
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3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
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18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
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23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
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2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
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9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
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7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
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9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
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12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
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20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
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5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
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12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
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3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
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7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
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18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
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28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
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18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.