Psalms 64:7
And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
In Context
8And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
1 Kings 22:34And a man hath drawn with a bow, in his simplicity, and smiteth the king of Israel between the joinings and the coat of mail, and he saith to his charioteer, 'Turn thy hand, and take me out from the camp, for I have become sick.'
Job 6:4For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!
Psalms 18:14And He sendeth His arrows and scattereth them, And much lightning, and crusheth them.
Psalms 73:19How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors.
Proverbs 29:1A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is 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 →