Psalms 7:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

If he does not turn back, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

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  • Deut 32:41 : 41 If I sharpen my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward those who hate me.
  • Ps 85:4 : 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day the LORD with His cruel and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that twisted 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 Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 31:18-19 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God. 19 Surely, after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
  • Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says 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 says the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished: 10 It is sharpened to make a great slaughter; it is polished that it may glitter: should we then rejoice? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree. 11 And he has given it to be polished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
  • Ezek 21:23 : 23 And it shall be to 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 to them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent 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 7:13-15
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    83%

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

    14Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

    15He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch he made.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For behold, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, to secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 7:11
    75%

    11God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    74%

    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.

    15Their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

  • Lam 3:11-13
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    74%

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

    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 32:41
    73%

    41If I sharpen my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward those who hate me.

  • Ps 21:12
    73%

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

  • Ps 64:3
    72%

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

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him.

  • Job 20:24
    71%

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

  • Isa 31:2
    71%

    2Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.

  • Job 9:13
    71%

    13If God does not withdraw His anger, the proud helpers stoop under Him.

  • Job 41:28
    71%

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

  • Ps 58:7
    70%

    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 64:7
    70%

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

  • Job 39:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not turn back from the sword.

    23The quiver rattles against it, the flashing spear and the javelin.

  • Prov 21:29
    70%

    29A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.

  • Isa 10:7
    70%

    7Yet he does not mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.

  • Ps 37:12
    70%

    12The wicked plot against the just and gnash at him with their teeth.

  • Lam 2:4
    69%

    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.

  • Prov 24:18
    69%

    18Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Job 27:22
    69%

    22For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand.

  • Job 16:13
    69%

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

  • Lam 3:3
    69%

    3Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

  • Job 15:24
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    24Trouble and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.

  • Deut 32:23
    69%

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

  • Hab 1:11
    69%

    11Then his mind changes, and he transgresses; he commits offense, ascribing this power to his god.

  • Ezek 21:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10It is sharpened to make a great slaughter; it is polished that it may glitter: should we then rejoice? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree.

    11And he has given it to be polished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

  • Isa 5:28
    68%

    28Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hooves shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

  • Prov 7:23
    68%

    23Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.

  • Prov 29:1
    68%

    1He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  • Prov 24:11
    68%

    11If you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, and those ready to be slain;

  • Num 35:20
    68%

    20But if he pushes him out of hatred, or hurls at him by lying in wait so that he dies;

  • Ps 2:5
    68%

    5Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and distress them in his deep displeasure.

  • Job 41:26
    68%

    26The sword that reaches him cannot prevail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

  • Isa 57:17
    68%

    17For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid myself and was angry, and he went on stubbornly in the way of his heart.

  • Ps 55:20
    68%

    20He has put forth his hands against those at peace with him; he has broken his covenant.

  • Exod 21:13
    68%

    13However, if he did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.

  • 1 Sam 20:7
    68%

    7If he says thus, It is well; your servant shall have peace: but if he is very angry, then be sure that evil is determined by him.

  • Hos 7:6
    68%

    6For they prepare their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

  • Prov 6:34
    68%

    34For jealousy is a husband's fury: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

  • Prov 19:19
    68%

    19A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment; for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.