¹⁴ The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow to throw down the afflicted and the needy, to slay those who are upright in conduct. ¹⁵ Their sword will enter their own heart,
And their bows will be broken.
¹⁶ Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.

Cross References

Psalm 7:14-15

See how they conceive evil. They are pregnant with wickedness and give birth to lies.

Psalm 35:8

Surprise them with destruction. Let the net that they hid catch them. Let them fall into their own pit and be destroyed.

Psalm 46:9

He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth! He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. He burns the chariots (instruments of destruction) with fire.

1 Samuel 2:4

The bows of the mighty are broken. Those who stumbled are girded with strength.

1 Samuel 31:4

He said to the young man carrying his weapons: Draw your sword and kill me. That way these godless Philistines will not gloat over me and kill me. But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it.

2 Samuel 17:23

Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed. He saddled his donkey and went back to his hometown. He arranged his affairs in order and he hanged himself. He was buried in the family grave.

Esther 7:9-10

Then Harbonah, one of the court officials 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 near Haman's house. Then the king said: Put him to death by hanging him on it.

Psalm 76:3-6

There He broke the flaming arrows, the shield and the sword and the weapons of war.

Isaiah 37:38

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with the sword. They escaped to the land of Ararat. Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.

Jeremiah 51:56

A destroyer will attack Babylon, its soldiers will be captured, and their bows and arrows will be broken. I Jehovah am a God who punishes evil. I will certainly punish them.

Hosea 1:5

It will happen that I will break the bow (strength) of Israel in the valley of Jezrell.

Hosea 2:18

At that time I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down in safety.

Micah 5:6

They will rule the land of Assyria and the entrances to the land of Nimrod with the sword. When he comes to our land and treads inside our borders he will deliver us from the Assyrian.

Matthew 27:4-5

He said: I have done wrong in giving a righteous man to you.