Psalm 57:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Cross References

Job 41:14

Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.

Psalm 10:9

they lurk in secret like a lion in its den; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.

Psalm 35:17

How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!

Psalm 43:3

O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling.

Psalm 52:2

you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Psalm 55:21

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Psalm 58:6

O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Proverbs 12:18

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 25:18

Like a war club, a sword, or a sharp arrow is one who bears false witness against a neighbor.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.

Revelation 19:15

From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a scepter of iron; he will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

Judges 9:20

but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the lords of Shechem and Beth-millo, and let fire come out from the lords of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”