Psalm 120:4

New American Bible - revised edition

A warrior’s arrows sharpened with coals of brush wood!

Cross References

Psalm 45:5

In the cause of truth, meekness, and justice may your right hand show your wondrous deeds.

Psalm 52:5

You love evil more than good, lying rather than saying what is right. Selah

Psalm 57:4

May God send help from heaven to save me, shame those who trample upon me. May God send fidelity and mercy. Selah

Psalm 59:7

Each evening they return, growling like dogs, prowling the city.

Psalm 7:13

If one does not repent, God sharpens his sword, strings and readies the bow,

Proverbs 11:12

Whoever reviles a neighbor lacks sense, but the intelligent keep silent.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked make empty profits, but those who sow justice have a sure reward.

Proverbs 11:9

By a word the impious ruin their neighbors, but through their knowledge the just are rescued.

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who are truthful, his delight.

Proverbs 16:27

Scoundrels are a furnace of evil, and their lips are like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who choose one shall eat its fruit.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a talebearer are like dainty morsels: they sink into one’s inmost being.

Proverbs 19:5

The false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever utters lies will not escape.

Proverbs 19:9

The false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever utters lies will perish.

Jeremiah 9:7

A murderous arrow is their tongue, their mouths utter deceit; They speak peaceably with their neighbors, but in their hearts they lay an ambush!

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” The New Jerusalem.