Psalms 7:13
Indeed, He has prepared for Himself || Instruments of death, || He makes His arrows for burning pursuers.
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In Context
12If [one] does not turn, || He sharpens His sword, || He has bent His bow [and] He prepares it,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23I heap calamities on them, || I consume My arrows on them.
Deuteronomy 32:42I make My arrows drunk with blood, || And My sword devours flesh, || From the blood of the pierced and captive, || From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
Psalms 11:2For behold, the wicked bend a bow, || They have prepared their arrow on the string, || To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Psalms 45:5Your arrows [are] sharp—Peoples fall under You—In the heart of the enemies of the King.
Psalms 64:7And God shoots them [with] an arrow, || Their wounds have been sudden,
Lamentations 2:4He has bent His bow as an enemy, || His right hand has stood as an adversary, || And He slays all the desirable ones of the eye, || In the tent of the daughter of Zion, || He has poured out as fire His fury.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 7:11-17
The Persecutor's Doom. 10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. 12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he… Read the whole commentary →