Psalm 64:4

New American Bible - revised edition

They sharpen their tongues like swords, bend their bows of poison words.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:14

At this, David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem: “Get up, let us flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. Leave at once, or he will quickly overtake us, and then bring disaster upon us, and put the city to the sword.”

Nehemiah 4:11

as they rebuilt the wall. The load carriers, too, were armed; each worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.

Psalm 11:2

See how the wicked string their bows, fit their arrows to the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright of heart.

Psalm 55:19

He will redeem my soul in peace from those who war against me, though there are many who oppose me.

Psalm 55:22

Softer than butter is his speech, but war is in his heart. Smoother than oil are his words, but they are unsheathed swords.

Psalm 57:5

I must lie down in the midst of lions hungry for human prey. Their teeth are spears and arrows; their tongue, a sharpened sword.

Psalm 64:7

They devise wicked schemes, conceal the schemes they devise; the designs of their hearts are hidden.

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierced his head with your shafts; his princes you scattered with your stormwind, as food for the poor in unknown places.

John 19:6

When the chief priests and the guards saw him they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him. I find no guilt in him.”

1 Samuel 18:11

Saul poised the spear, thinking, “I will nail David to the wall!” But twice David escaped him.

1 Samuel 19:10

Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but David eluded Saul, and the spear struck only the wall, while David got away safely.