Psalms 45:5

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Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 21:12 : 12 For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.
  • Ps 22:27 : 27 Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the LORD and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you!
  • Ps 38:2 : 2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.
  • Num 24:8 : 8 God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull; they will devour hostile people and will break their bones and will pierce them through with arrows.
  • Ps 2:1-9 : 1 Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail? 2 The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the LORD and his anointed king. 3 They say,“Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!” 4 The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them. 5 Then he angrily speaks to them and terrifies them in his rage, saying, 6 “I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill.” 7 The king says,“I will announce the LORD’s decree. He said to me:‘You are my son! This very day I have become your father! 8 Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property. 9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
  • Ps 66:3-4 : 3 Say to God:“How awesome are your deeds! Because of your great power your enemies cower in fear before you. 4 All the earth worships you and sings praises to you! They sing praises to your name!”(Selah)
  • Zech 9:13-14 : 13 I will bend Judah as my bow; I will load the bow with Ephraim, my arrow! I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and I will make you, Zion, like a warrior’s sword. 14 Then the LORD will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Sovereign LORD will blow the trumpet and will proceed in the southern storm winds.
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 saying,“If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side. 44 They will demolish you– you and your children within your walls– and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
  • Luke 20:18-19 : 18 Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.” 19 Then the experts in the law and the chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.
  • Acts 2:37 : 37 The Response to Peter’s Address Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,“What should we do, brothers?”
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 But many of those who had listened to the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:14 : 14 More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women.
  • Acts 5:33 : 33 Now when they heard this, they became furious and wanted to execute them.
  • Acts 6:7 : 7 The word of God continued to spread, the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.
  • Acts 7:54 : 54 Stephen is Killed When they heard these things, they became furious and ground their teeth at him.
  • Rom 15:18-19 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

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    2For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.

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    6Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!

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

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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.

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    40You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.

    41You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

  • 2 Sam 22:35
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    35He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

  • Ps 18:38-40
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    38I beat them to death; they fall at my feet.

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    3I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.

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    7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

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    42You have allowed his adversaries to be victorious, and all his enemies to rejoice.

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  • Exod 15:6-7
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    9Lift your hand triumphantly against your adversaries; may all your enemies be destroyed!

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    5You need not fear the terrors of the night, the arrow that flies by day,