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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4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
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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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2 Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
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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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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.
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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:
15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:
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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.
4 They only consult to cast [him] down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
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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.