Psalms 7:12
If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; He has bent and strung his bow.
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- Deut 32:41 : 41 If I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, 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 swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
- Isa 34:5 : 5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky: behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, to judgment.
- Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek you 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 you 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 you, 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 you, turn you 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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13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
14 Behold, he travails with iniquity; Yes, he has conceived mischief, And brought forth falsehood.
15 He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.
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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.
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- Ps 37:14-152 verses74%
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.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.
- Lam 3:11-133 verses74%
11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
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 reins.
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41 If I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, Will recompense those who hate me.
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12 For you will make them turn their back, When you aim drawn bows at their face.
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3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, deadly words,
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32 The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to kill him.
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24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.
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2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
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13 "God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
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28 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
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7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
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7 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
- Job 39:22-232 verses70%
22 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed; Neither does he turn back from the sword.
23 The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and the javelin.
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29 A wicked man hardens his face; But as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
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7 However 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.
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12 The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes at him with his teeth.
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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.
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18 Lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
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22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.
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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.
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3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
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24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good; He doesn't abhor evil.
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23 I will heap evils on them; I will spend my arrows on them:
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11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."
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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.
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28 Whose 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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23 Until 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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1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
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11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
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20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,
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5 Then he will speak to them in his anger, And terrify them in his wrath:
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26 If one lay at him with the sword, it can't avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
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17 For 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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20 He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
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13 but 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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7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
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6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
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34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance.
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19 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, For if you rescue him, you must do it again.