Psalms 120:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

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  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under you.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 God shall likewise destroy you forever, He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions, and I lie among those who 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 mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 As for the head of those who surround me, 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 A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.
  • Prov 11:12 : 12 He who lacks wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked works a deceitful work, but he who sows righteousness shall have a sure reward.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 An ungodly man digs up evil, and in his lips there is like a burning fire.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of a talebearer are like wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
  • Prov 19:5 : 5 A false witness shall not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall not escape.
  • Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witness shall not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall perish.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
  • Deut 32:23-24 : 23 I will heap disasters upon them; I will use up my arrows against them. 24 They shall be wasted 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 has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 120:3
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    3What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?

  • Ps 45:5
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    5Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under you.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    75%

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

    4That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not.

  • Job 6:4
    74%

    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves against me.

  • Ps 140:10
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    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
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    74%

    12He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.

    13He has caused the arrows of His quiver to pierce my innermost parts.

  • Deut 32:22-24
    3 verses
    74%

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

    23I will heap disasters upon them; I will use up my arrows against them.

    24They shall be wasted 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 64:7
    74%

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

  • Ps 7:13
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    13He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.

  • Ps 38:2
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    2For your arrows pierce deeply into me, and your hand presses me hard.

  • Ps 57:4
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    4My soul is among lions, and I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

  • Job 41:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28The arrow cannot make him flee; sling stones are turned to stubble by him.

    29Darts are regarded as stubble, he laughs at the shaking of a spear.

    30Under him are sharp stones; he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.

  • Ps 83:14
    73%

    14As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

  • Ps 144:6
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    6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.

  • Prov 26:18
    72%

    18Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

  • Isa 33:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath, as fire, will devour you.

    12The people will be burned to lime; like thorns cut up, they will be burned in the fire.

  • Ps 127:4
    72%

    4As arrows are in the hand of a mighty warrior, so are the children of one's youth.

  • Isa 7:24
    72%

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

  • Jer 22:7
    72%

    7And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Isa 49:2
    72%

    2And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he has hidden me, and made me a polished arrow; in his quiver he has hidden me;

  • 2 Sam 22:13
    71%

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

  • Ps 11:2
    71%

    2For behold, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, to secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7Let them melt away as waters that run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be cut in pieces.

  • Ps 118:12
    71%

    12They surrounded me like bees; they are quenched like the fire of thorns, for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

  • Ps 120:5
    71%

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

  • Lam 1:13
    71%

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

  • Lam 2:4
    71%

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

  • Job 16:13
    71%

    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

  • Ps 21:12
    71%

    12Therefore, you shall make them turn their back; you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against their face.

  • Jer 5:16
    70%

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

  • Isa 47:14
    70%

    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 by, nor a fire to sit before.

  • Ps 58:9
    70%

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

  • Ps 18:12
    70%

    12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

  • Hab 3:11
    70%

    11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; at the light of Your arrows they went, and at the shining of Your glittering spear.

  • Job 20:24
    70%

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

  • Ezek 16:40
    70%

    40They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • Ps 80:16
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    16It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

  • Isa 1:31
    69%

    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.

  • Ps 140:3
    69%

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

  • Ps 37:14
    69%

    14The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

  • Nah 2:3
    69%

    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.

  • Lam 4:19
    69%

    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.