Psalms 64:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:7 : 7 They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
  • 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.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul `is' in the midst of lions, I lie down `among' flames -- sons of men, Their teeth `are' a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.
  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This `is' the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And 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!
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. 7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, 8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

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  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

    5They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

  • Ps 64:7-8
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    81%

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

    8And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

  • Ps 140:2-3
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    2Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars.

    3They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8A slaughtering arrow `is' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

  • Ps 11:2
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    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 37:14-15
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    14A 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.

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

  • Rom 3:13-15
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    78%

    13A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips.

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

    15Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

  • 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.

  • Ps 120:3-4
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    3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

    4Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.

  • 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 59:7
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    7Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

  • Ps 7:12-13
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    74%

    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.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

  • Ps 21:11-12
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    73%

    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.

  • Ps 64:2
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    2Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    12He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

    13He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18As `one' pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

  • Ps 55:21
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    21Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart `is' war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they `are' drawn `swords'.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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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.

    4Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.

  • Prov 25:18
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    18A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, `Is' the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

  • Deut 32:23
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    23I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

  • Ps 109:2
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    2For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

  • Ps 10:7
    71%

    7Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,

  • Ps 58:4
    71%

    4Their poison `is' as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

  • Ps 140:9
    71%

    9The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

  • Ps 38:12
    71%

    12And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

  • Ps 45:5
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    5Thine arrows `are' sharp, -- Peoples fall under Thee -- In the heart of the enemies of the king.

  • Ps 37:12
    70%

    12The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

  • Ps 83:3
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    3Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.

  • Ps 41:7
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    7All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:

  • Prov 12:18
    70%

    18A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

  • Ps 17:11
    70%

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

  • Isa 5:28
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    28Whose arrows `are' sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!

  • Prov 1:18
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    18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.