Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.
Psalm 120:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 A warrior’s sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Sharp arrows of a [mighty] warrior, with [glowing] coals of the broom tree! American Standard Version (1901) Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper. Common English Bible Just this: a warrior’s sharpened arrows, coupled with burning coals from a wood fire! Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, he who guards Israel will neither sleep, nor slumber. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel. |
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.
But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.
There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
Whoever belittles another lacks sense, but an intelligent person remains silent.
The wicked earn no real gain, but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.
With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: I will now refine and test them, for what else can I do with the daughter of my people?
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”