Verse 9

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:12-13 : 12 If a person does not repent, God will wield his sword. He has prepared to shoot his bow. 13 He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.
  • Ps 78:15-16 : 15 He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea. 16 He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.
  • Ps 105:41 : 41 He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.
  • Ps 143:6 : 6 I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.(Selah)
  • Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the LORD! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster? 10 Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?
  • Isa 52:10 : 10 The LORD reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver.
  • Lam 2:4 : 4 ד(Dalet) He prepared his bow like an enemy; his right hand was ready to shoot. Like a foe he killed everyone, even our strong young men; he has poured out his anger like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.
  • Luke 1:72-75 : 72 He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant– 73 the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham. This oath grants 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.
  • 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
  • Heb 6:13-18 : 13 Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, 14 saying,“Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.” 15 And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise. 16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute. 17 In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath, 18 so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
  • Gen 15:18-21 : 18 That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram:“To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River– 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
  • Gen 22:16-18 : 16 and said,“‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the LORD,‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies. 18 Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”
  • Gen 26:3-4 : 3 Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham. 4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
  • Gen 28:13-14 : 13 and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.
  • Exod 17:6 : 6 I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.
  • Num 20:11 : 11 Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.
  • Deut 32:23 : 23 I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.
  • Ps 105:8-9 : 8 He always remembers his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations– 9 the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac! 10 He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise, 11 saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
  • Ps 35:1-3 : 1 By David. O LORD, fight those who fight with me! Attack those who attack me! 2 Grab your small shield and large shield, and rise up to help me! 3 Use your spear and lance against those who chase me! Assure me with these words:“I am your deliverer!”