Psalms 120:4

World English Bible (2000)

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions. 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 spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
  • 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 on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise. 11 An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  • Prov 11:9 : 9 With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
  • Prov 11:12 : 12 One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
  • Prov 19:5 : 5 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
  • Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
  • Deut 32:23-24 : 23 "I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. 24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
  • Ps 7:13 : 13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

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  • Ps 120:3
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    3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

  • Ps 45:5
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    5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

    4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

  • Job 6:4
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    4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

  • Ps 140:10
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    10 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

    13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

  • Deut 32:22-24
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    22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

    23 "I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

    24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

  • Ps 64:7
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    7 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

  • Ps 7:13
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    13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

  • Ps 38:2
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    2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

  • Ps 57:4
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    4 My soul is among lions. 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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    18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • Job 41:28-30
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    28 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

    29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

    30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14 As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

  • Ps 144:6
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    6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18 Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11 You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

    12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

  • Ps 127:4
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    4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

  • Isa 7:24
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    24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7 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
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    2 and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:

  • 2 Sam 22:13
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    13 At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

  • Ps 118:12
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    12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

  • Ps 120:5
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    5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

  • Lam 1:13
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    13 From on high has he 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
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    4 He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.

  • Job 16:13
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    13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

  • Jer 5:16
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    16 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

  • Isa 47:14
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    14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • Ps 18:12
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    12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

  • Hab 3:11
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    11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

  • Job 20:24
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    24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • Ps 80:16
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    16 It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

  • Isa 1:31
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    31 The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them."

  • Ps 140:3
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    3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Nah 2:3
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    3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

  • Lam 4:19
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    19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.