Psalms 37:14
Wicked people pull out their swords/daggers and they put strings on their bows, ready to kill people who are poor [DOU] and to slaughter those who live righteously.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
15But they will be killed by their own swords/daggers, and their bows will be broken.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:17He said, “You are a better man than I am. You have done something very good to me when I tried to do something very bad to you.
Psalms 11:2because wicked people have hidden in the darkness, they have pulled back their bowstrings and aimed their arrows to shoot them at godly/righteous [IDM] people like you.
Psalms 64:2Protect me from what wicked men are planning to do to me; protect me from that gang of men who do what is evil.
Proverbs 29:27Righteous people hate/detest those who do what is evil, and wicked people hate those whose behavior is always good.
Matthew 23:30You say, ‘If we had lived when our ancestors [MET] lived, we would not have helped [MET] those who killed [MTY] the prophets.’
Acts 12:2He commanded a soldier to cut off the head of the apostle James, the older brother of the apostle John.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 37:8-21
Exhortations and Promises. 7 Rest in the Lord , and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord , they shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 11 But the meek shall… Read the whole commentary →