Verse 3

Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, deadly words,

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:7 : 7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
  • Ps 11:2 : 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.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And their jaws like knives, To devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.{Gehenna is a name that describes a burning Hell with rotting bodies and unclean things in it} 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.