Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.
New American Standard Bible
And their
King James Version
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Holman Bible
and their bows will be broken.
International Standard Version
But their sword will pierce their own heart, and their bows will be broken!
A Conservative Version
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
American Standard Version
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, And their bows shall be broken.
Amplified
The sword [of the ungodly] will enter their own heart,
And their bow will be broken.
Bible in Basic English
But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.
Darby Translation
their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Julia Smith Translation
Their sword shall go into their heart, and their bows shall be broken.
King James 2000
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Their sword will enter into their [own] heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Modern King James verseion
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their sword shall go through their own heart, and their bow shall be broken.
NET Bible
Their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
New Heart English Bible
Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.
The Emphasized Bible
Their sword, shall enter into their own heart, and, their bow, shall be broken.
Webster
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
World English Bible
Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.
Themes
the Bow » Of the vanquished, broken and burned
Punishment of the The Wicked » Often brought about by their evil designs
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 37:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instruction In Wisdom
14 A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way. 15 Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered. 16 Better is the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.
Cross References
Psalm 7:14-15
Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
Psalm 35:8
Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.
Psalm 46:9
Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.
1 Samuel 2:4
Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.
1 Samuel 31:4
and Saul saith to the bearer of his weapons, 'Draw thy sword, and pierce me with it, lest they come -- these uncircumcised -- and have pierced me, and rolled themselves on me;' and the bearer of his weapons hath not been willing, for he is greatly afraid, and Saul taketh the sword, and falleth upon it.
2 Samuel 17:23
And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.
Esther 7:9-10
And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, saith before the king, 'Also lo, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height fifty cubits;' and the king saith, 'Hang him upon it.'
Psalm 76:3-6
There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.
Isaiah 37:38
And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.
Jeremiah 51:56
For come in against it -- against Babylon -- hath a spoiler, And captured have been its mighty ones, Broken have been their bows, For the God of recompences -- Jehovah -- doth certainly repay.
Hosea 1:5
and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.'
Hosea 2:18
And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.
Micah 5:6
And they have afflicted the land of Asshur with the sword, And the land of Nimrod at its openings, And he hath delivered from Asshur when he doth come into our land, And when he treadeth in our borders.
Matthew 27:4-5
I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, 'What -- to us? thou shalt see!'