Psalms 7:13
If He relent not, He will sharpen His cherev; 1 He hath bent His keshet (bow) and made it ready. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12Elohim is a Shofet Tzaddik, 1 and El expresses wrath kol yom. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap disasters upon them; 1 I will spend Mine khitzim (arrows) upon them. 1
Deuteronomy 32:42I will make Mine khitzim (arrows) drunk with dahm, 1 and My cherev shall devour basar; 1 and that with the dahm of the slain and of the captives, 1 from the head of leaders of the foe. 1
Psalms 11:2For, hinei, the resha'im bend their bow, 1 they make ready their arrow upon the string, 1 that they may secretly shoot at the yishrei lev (upright in heart). 1
Psalms 45:5And in Thy hadar (majesty) ride forth victoriously 1 for the sake of emes and anavah and tzedek; 1 and Thy Yamin (Right Hand) shall guide Thee to nora'ot (things of awe). 1
Psalms 64:7Or search out their iniquities? 1 They have accomplished a cunningly devised plot; 1 for the mind of ish (man) and the lev (heart) are deep. 1
Lamentations 2:4He hath bent His keshet (bow) like an oyev; 1 He took His stand with His right hand as an adversary, 1 and slaughtered all that were pleasant 1 to the eye in the ohel Bat Tziyon; 1 He poured out His fury like eish. 1
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 →