Psalms 120:4

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Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say,“Who hears?”
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 As for the heads of those who surround me– may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them! 10 May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape. 11 A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.
  • Prov 11:9 : 9 With his speech the godless person destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous will be delivered.
  • Prov 11:12 : 12 The one who denounces his neighbor lacks sense, but a discerning person keeps silent.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 The LORD abhors a person who lies, but those who deal truthfully are his delight.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; and they have gone down into the person’s innermost being.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.
  • Prov 19:5 : 5 A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will not escape punishment.
  • Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will perish.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze. 6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence– and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued and has been subdued by humankind. 8 But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”
  • Deut 32:23-24 : 23 I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them. 24 They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
  • Ps 7:13 : 13 He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.

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  • Ps 120:3
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    3How will he severely punish you, you deceptive talker?

  • Ps 45:5
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    5Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    3They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,

    4in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

  • Job 6:4
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    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

  • Ps 140:10
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    10May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    12He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.

    13ה(He) He shot his arrows into my heart.

  • Deut 32:22-24
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    22For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

    23I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

    24They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

  • Ps 64:7
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    7But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.

  • Ps 7:13
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    13He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.

  • Ps 38:2
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    2For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.

  • Ps 57:4
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    4I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

  • Job 41:28-30
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    28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

    29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

    30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

  • Ps 144:6
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    6Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!

  • Prov 26:18
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    18Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows,

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

    12The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.

  • Ps 127:4
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    4Sons born during one’s youth are like arrows in a warrior’s hand.

  • Isa 7:24
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    24With bow and arrow men will hunt there, for the whole land will be covered with thorns and briers.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7I will send men against it to destroy it with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire.

  • Isa 49:2
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    2He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.

  • 2 Sam 22:13
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    13From the brightness in front of him came coals of fire.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

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    12They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.

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    5How miserable I am! For I have lived temporarily in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar.

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    4ד(Dalet) He prepared his bow like an enemy; his right hand was ready to shoot. Like a foe he killed everyone, even our strong young men; he has poured out his anger like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.

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    13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.

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    16All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

  • Isa 47:14
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    14Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

  • Ps 18:12
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    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

  • Hab 3:11
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    11The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.

  • Job 20:24
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    24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

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    40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

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    16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

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    31The powerful will be like a thread of yarn, their deeds like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put out the fire.

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    3Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips.(Selah)

  • Ps 37:14
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    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

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    3Prophetic Vision of the Fall of Nineveh The shields of his warriors are dyed red; the mighty soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments. The chariots are in flashing metal fittings on the day of battle; the soldiers brandish their spears.

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    19ק(Qof) Those who pursued us were swifter than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.