Psalms 7:12

World English Bible (2000)

If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:41 : 41 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
  • Ps 85:4 : 4 Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
  • Isa 34:5 : 5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, 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 calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
  • Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, 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 Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished; 10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree. 11 It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.
  • Ezek 21:23 : 23 It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.
  • Ezek 33:11 : 11 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

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

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

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  • Ps 37:14-15
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    14The 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.

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  • Lam 3:11-13
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    11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

    12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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    41if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

  • Ps 21:12
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  • Ps 64:3
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    3who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

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

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • Job 9:13
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    13"God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

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

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

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

  • Job 39:22-23
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    22He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.

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

  • Prov 21:29
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    29A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

  • Isa 10:7
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    7However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

  • Lam 2:4
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    4He 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.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Job 27:22
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    22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

  • Job 16:13
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    3Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

  • Job 15:24
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    23"I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

  • Hab 1:11
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    11Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."

  • Ezek 21:10-11
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    10it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.

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    28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

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    23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

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    1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

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    11Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

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    20If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

  • Ps 2:5
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    5Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

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    26If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

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    17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

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    20He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

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    13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

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

  • Hos 7:6
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    19A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.