Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Bible References

The arrows

Job 16:12
“I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.
Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap misfortunes on them;
I will use My arrows on them.
Psalm 7:13
He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons;
He makes His arrows fiery shafts.
Psalm 18:14
He sent out His arrows, and scattered them,
And lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.
Psalm 21:12
For You will make them turn their back;
You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
Psalm 38:2
For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,
And Your hand has pressed down on me.
Psalm 45:5
Your arrows are sharp;
The peoples fall under You;
Your arrows are in the heart of the King’s enemies.
Lamentations 3:12
He bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.

Drinketh up

Deuteronomy 32:24
They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
Psalm 143:7
Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man can endure his sickness,
But as for a broken spirit who can bear it?
Mark 14:33
And He *took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled.
Mark 15:34
At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

The terrors

Job 9:17
“For He bruises me with a tempest
And multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned against me;
They pursue my honor as the wind,
And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
Job 31:23
“For calamity from God is a terror to me,
And because of His majesty I can do nothing.
Psalm 88:15
I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.
2 Corinthians 5:11
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.