¹⁴ The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright behavior. ¹⁵ Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. ¹⁶ A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.

Cross References

Psalm 7:14-15

Behold, he brought forth iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Psalm 35:8

Let destruction come upon him unawares; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

Psalm 46:9

He makes wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in two; he burns the chariot in the fire.

1 Samuel 2:4

The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are clothed with strength.

1 Samuel 31:4

Then said Saul unto his armorbearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for he was greatly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

2 Samuel 17:23

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

Esther 7:9-10

And Harbona, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

Psalm 76:3-6

There broke he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

Isaiah 37:38

And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Jeremiah 51:56

Because the plunderer has come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, everyone of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely repay.

Hosea 1:5

And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

Hosea 2:18

And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will abolish the bow and the sword and the battle from the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

Micah 5:6

And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our borders.

Matthew 27:4-5

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see you to that.