Psalm 37:14 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁴ The wrong have drawn the sword And have bent their bow, To cause the poor and needy to fall, To slay those who walk straightly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to cast down the poor and needy, to slay those who walk uprightly (blameless in conduct and in conversation).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ The wicked draw their swords and bend their bows to bring down the weak and the needy, to slaughter those whose way is right.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ But, like someone deaf, I did not hear. And I was like someone mute, not opening his mouth.

Psalm 37:14 Cross References

Esther 5:14

So his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a stake be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the sovereign that Mordeḵ

Psalm 11:2

For look! The wrong bend a bow, They set their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Psalm 35:10

Let all my bones say, “יהוה, who is like You, Delivering the poor from one stronger than he, And the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

Proverbs 29:10

Bloodthirsty men hate the perfect, And seek the life of the straight.

Proverbs 29:27

An unrighteous man Is an abomination to the righteous, And he who is straight in the way Is an abomination to the wrong.

Habakkuk 1:13

You, whose eyes are too clean to see evil, You are not able to look on wrong. Why do You look on those who act treacherously – keep silent when the wrong devours one more righteous than he?

Acts 12:11

And when Kĕ

Acts 12:23

And instantly a messenger of יהוה  smote him, because he did not give the esteem to Elohim. And becoming worm-eaten, he died.

Acts 7:52

“Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

1 John 3:12

not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous.

1 Samuel 24:11

“And my father, see! Yea, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not slay you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, while you are hunting my life to take it.

1 Samuel 24:17

And he said to Dawiḏ