Psalm 64:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Who whet their tongue like a sword, And bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Who whet their tongues like a sword, who aim venomous words like arrows,

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

Common English Bible

³ who sharpen their tongues like swords. They aim their arrow—a cruel word—

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Hear my prayer: all flesh will come to you.

Psalm 64:3 Cross References

Psalm 58:7

Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.

Psalm 57:4

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

Proverbs 12:18

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Psalm 11:2

for look, the wicked bend the bow, they have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, says the Lord.

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

Psalm 141:9

Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers.