Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

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Bible References

Whet

Psalm 57:4
My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 12:18
There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.
Proverbs 30:14
A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man.
Isaiah 54:17
Every vessel formed against thee shall not prosper: and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, and their justice is from me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:3
And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.
James 3:6
(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.

Bend

Psalm 11:2
For behold, the unjust will bend the bow, they prepared their arrow upon the cord, they will shoot in darkness the upright of heart
Psalm 58:7
They shall melt away as water shall go about to them: he will bend his arrow, they shall be as cut off.

General references

Genesis 49:23
This adversary will embitter him, and the lords of the arrows will lie in wait.