Psalms 7:13
He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
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12If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
14Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
Deuteronomy 32:42I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
Psalms 11:2For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Psalms 45:5Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.
Psalms 64:7But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
Lamentations 2:4He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
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 →