Psalms 7:13
He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
Deuteronomy 32:42I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
Psalms 11:2For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
Psalms 45:5Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.
Psalms 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
Lamentations 2:4He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
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 →