Psalms 64:7

Once let God have shot at them an arrow, Suddenly have appeared their own wounds!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

In Context

6They devise perverse things, They have completed the device well devised, Both the intent of each one, and the mind, are unsearchable.

8When they were to have ruined another, their tongue smote themselves, All who observe them take flight.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap on them, calamities,—Mine arrows, will I spend upon them:

1 Kings 22:34But, a certain man, drawing a bow in his innocence, smote the king of Israel, between the shoulder-joints and the coat of mail,—wherefore he said to his charioteer—Turn thy hand, and convey me out of the host, for I am sore wounded.

Job 6:4For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

Psalms 18:14And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them, yea, lightnings, he shot out, and confused them.

Psalms 73:19How have they become desolate, as in a moment! They have ceased—come to an end, by reason of calamities.

Proverbs 29:1He that being often reproved stiffeneth his neck, suddenly shall be hurt, and there be no healing.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 64:2-7

Malice of David's Enemies. 1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: 4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6… Read the whole commentary →

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