Psalms 7:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:41 : 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
  • Ps 85:4 : 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 ¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.
  • Isa 34:5 : 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 ¶ Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 31:18-19 : 18 ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
  • Ezek 18:30 : 30 ¶ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn [yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
  • Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, [as] every tree. 11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
  • Ezek 21:23 : 23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
  • Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 37:14-15
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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.

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  • Lam 3:11-13
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    11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

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

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  • Deut 32:41
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    41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.

  • Ps 64:3
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    32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

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

  • Isa 31:2
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    2 Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

  • Job 9:13
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    13 [If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

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

  • Ps 58:7
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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.

  • Ps 64:7
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    7 ¶ But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

  • Job 39:22-23
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    22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

    23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

  • Prov 21:29
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    29 ¶ A wicked man hardeneth his face: but [as for] the upright, he directeth his way.

  • Isa 10:7
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  • Ps 37:12
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    12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

  • Lam 2:4
    69%

    4 He 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.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18 Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Job 27:22
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    22 For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

  • Job 16:13
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    23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

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    10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, [as] every tree.

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  • Isa 5:28
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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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  • Hos 7:6
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    19 ¶ A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.