Psalm 64:3

A Conservative Version

who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

Cross References

Psalm 58:7

Let them melt away as water that runs with haste. When he aims his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off,

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

Proverbs 12:18

There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

Psalm 11:2

For, lo, the wicked bend the bow. They make ready their arrow upon the string that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper. And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of LORD, and their righteousness which is of me, says LORD.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Psalm 141:9

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.