Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

God shall be exalted; their blows were the arrow of the simple.

New American Standard Bible

But God will shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.

King James Version

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

Holman Bible

But God will shoot them with arrows;
suddenly, they will be wounded.

International Standard Version

But God shot an arrow at them, and they were wounded immediately.

A Conservative Version

But God will shoot at them. With an arrow they shall suddenly be wounded.

American Standard Version

But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.

Amplified


But God will shoot them with an [unexpected] arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.

Bible in Basic English

But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

Darby Translation

But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;

King James 2000

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But God will shoot them; with an arrow they will suddenly be wounded.

Modern King James verseion

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly they shall be wounded.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But God shall suddenly shoot with a swift arrow, that they shall be wounded.

NET Bible

But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.

New Heart English Bible

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

The Emphasized Bible

Once let God have shot at them an arrow, Suddenly have appeared their own wounds!

Webster

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

World English Bible

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

Youngs Literal Translation

And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

Verse Info

Context Readings

Protection From Evildoers

6 They will search out iniquities; they completed a search searched out: and a man drew near, and a deep heart. 7 God shall be exalted; their blows were the arrow of the simple. 8 And they will cause their tongue to falter upon themselves: all looking upon them shall be moved.


Cross References

Psalm 7:12-13

If he shall not turn back, he will sharpen his sword; he bent his bow and he will be prepared.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will gather evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall eat flesh, From the blood of the wounded and the captivity, From the head of the enemy's leaders.

1 Kings 22:34

And a man drew with a bow in his simplicity, and he will strike the king of Israel between the joinings and between the coat of mail; and he will say to his driver, Turn thy hand, and bring me forth from the war, for I was wounded.

1 Chronicles 10:3-7

And the war will be heavy upon Saul, and they shooting with bows will find him, and he will be wounded from those shooting.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.

Psalm 18:14

And he will send his arrows and scatter them; and he increased lightnings, and he will discomfit them.

Psalm 64:4

To shoot down the blameless one in secret things: suddenly they will shoot, and they will not be afraid.

Psalm 73:19

How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction.

Proverbs 6:15

For this, his destruction shall come suddenly; in a moment he shall be broken, and none healing.

Proverbs 29:1

A Man of reproofs hardening the neck, shall be suddenly broken, and no healing.

Isaiah 30:13

For this, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach falling, gushing out in a high wall, of which the breaking will come suddenly at a moment

Lamentations 3:12-13

He bent his bow, he will set me up as a mark for the arrow.

Matthew 24:40

Then shall be two in the field; one shall be taken, and one is let go;

Matthew 24:50-51

The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not,

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.

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