Psalm 37:15

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Summary

Psalm 37:15

Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Sword

Bows

Hosea 2:18

General references

Psalm 9:15

Bible References

Sword

That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take out your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, and falling on it, put an end to himself.

Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.

Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it.

And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.

And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.

Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

Bows

He puts an end to wars over all the earth; by him the bow is broken, and the spear cut in two, and the carriage burned in the fire.

There were the arrows of the bow broken, there he put an end to body-cover, sword, and fight. (Selah.)

For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.

And in that day I will let the bow of Israel be broken in the valley of Jezreel.

And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.

General references

The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.