Psalms 64:8
and God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
In Context
9and their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;
Cross References
Numbers 16:34But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also.
Job 15:6Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.
Psalms 22:7But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
Psalms 52:6Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.
Psalms 140:9If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
Proverbs 12:13For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil mall: but the just shall escape out of distress.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 64:8-10
God's Judgments on Persecutors. 7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. 9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. 10 The righteous shall be glad in the Lord , and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. We may observe here, I. The judgments of God which should certainly come upon these malicious… Read the whole commentary →