Psalms 7:13
Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12If [one] turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden — He prepareth it,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
Deuteronomy 32:42I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.
Psalms 11:2For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Psalms 45:5Thine arrows [are] sharp, — Peoples fall under Thee — In the heart of the enemies of the king.
Psalms 64:7And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
Lamentations 2:4He hath trodden His bow as an enemy, Stood hath His right hand as an adversary, And He slayeth all the desirable ones of the eye, In the tent of the daughter of Zion, He hath poured out as fire His fury.
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 →