Psalm 57:4 - The Scriptures 2009

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ My soul is among lions: And I lie even among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ My life is among lions; I must lie among those who are aflame–the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Common English Bible

⁴ My life is in the middle of a pack of lions. I lie down among those who devour humans. Their teeth are spears and arrows; their tongues are sharpened swords.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Psalm 57:4 Cross References

Job 41:14

Who shall open the doors of his face, with his frightening teeth all around?

Psalm 10:9

He lies in wait in a secret place, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor, drawing him into his net.

Psalm 35:17

יהוה, how long would You look on? Rescue my being from their destructions, My only life from the lions.

Psalm 43:3

Send forth Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me, Let them bring me to Your set-apart mountain And to Your dwelling places.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smoother than curds, Yet in his heart is fighting; His words were softer than oil, But they are drawn swords.

Psalm 58:6

O Elohim, break their teeth in their mouth! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O יהוה!

Psalm 59:7

See, they belch out with their mouth, Swords are in their lips, For who is listening?

Psalm 64:3

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

Proverbs 12:18

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

Proverbs 25:18

A man bearing false witness against his neighbour Is like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 28:15

A roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wrongdoing ruler over poor people.

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.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by GĕHinnom.

Revelation 19:15

And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations. And He shall shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Ěl Shaddai.

Judges 9:20

“But if not, let fire come out from Aḇimeleḵ and devour the masters of Sheḵem and Bĕyth Millo, and let fire come out from the masters of Sheḵem and from Bĕyth Millo and devour Aḇimeleḵ!”