Psalms 37:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 11:2 : 2 For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
  • Prov 29:27 : 27 An abomination to the righteous `is' the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked `is' the upright in the way!
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,
  • Matt 23:30-34 : 30 and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets; 32 and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers. 33 `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna? 34 `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;
  • Acts 7:52 : 52 which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,
  • Acts 12:2-3 : 2 and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword, 3 and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food --
  • Acts 12:11 : 11 And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones say, `Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'
  • Ps 64:2-6 : 2 Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity. 3 Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word. 4 To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not. 5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?' 6 They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart `are' deep.
  • Prov 29:10 : 10 Men of blood hate the perfect, And the upright seek his soul.
  • 1 Sam 24:11 : 11 `And, my father, see, yea see the skirt of thine upper robe in my hand; for by cutting off the skirt of thy upper robe, and I have not slain thee, know and see that there is not in my hand evil and transgression, and I have not sinned against thee, and thou art hunting my soul to take it!
  • 1 Sam 24:17 : 17 And he saith unto David, `More righteous thou `art' than I; for thou hast done me good, and I have done thee evil;
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 37:15-17
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    84%

    15Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.

    16Better `is' the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

    17For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.

  • Ps 11:2
    84%

    2For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 37:32
    79%

    32The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    78%

    3Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

    4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

  • Ps 37:12-13
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    12The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

    13The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh.

  • Prov 14:19
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    19The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • Isa 32:7
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    7And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

  • Ps 10:8-10
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    77%

    8He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

    9He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

    10He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

  • Ps 17:11
    76%

    11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • Ps 64:7
    76%

    7And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

  • Ps 7:12-13
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    75%

    12If `one' turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,

    13Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.

  • Job 24:4
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    4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

  • Ps 21:11-12
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    75%

    11For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

    12For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

  • Ps 34:21
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    21Evil doth put to death the wicked, And those hating the righteous are desolate.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Ps 109:16
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    16Because that he hath not remembered to do kindness, And pursueth the poor man and needy, And the smitten of heart -- to slay,

  • Prov 30:14
    74%

    14A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.

  • Lam 3:12
    74%

    12He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

  • Ps 17:13
    74%

    13Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Thy sword,

  • Job 24:14
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    14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

  • Job 38:15
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    15And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked `are': `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars.

  • Ps 94:21
    73%

    21They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

  • Prov 21:12
    73%

    12The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

  • Hab 3:14
    73%

    14Thou hast pierced with his staves the head of his leaders, They are tempestuous to scatter me, Their exultation `is' as to consume the poor in secret.

  • Prov 29:7
    73%

    7The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

  • Ps 82:4
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    4Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

  • Ps 62:3
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    3Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.

  • Ps 10:15
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    15Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

  • Ps 140:11
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    11A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

  • Ps 129:4
    73%

    4Jehovah `is' righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

  • Job 22:19
    72%

    19See do the righteous and they rejoice, And the innocent mocketh at them,

  • Isa 10:2
    72%

    2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.