'Bent' in the Bible

If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;