Psalm 64:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, a bitter word,

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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 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 141:9

Guard me from the clutches Of the trap they have laid for me, And from the snares Of the workers of wickedness.

Psalm 57:4

My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:7

Let them melt, let them vanish as water; Let Him aim His arrows that they be cut down;

Proverbs 12:18

Rash speaking is like piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise is healing.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, And whose jaw-teeth are knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.

Isaiah 54:17

“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall prove wrong. This is the inheritance of the servants of יהוה, and their righteousness from Me,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:3

“And they bend their tongue like a bow. Falsehood, and not truth, prevails on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they have not known Me,” declares יהוה.