Psalm 64:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 11:2

for look, the wicked bend the bow, they have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.

Psalm 141:9

Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers.

Psalm 57:4

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

Psalm 58:7

Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.

Proverbs 12:18

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

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.

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.