Psalm 37:14
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New International Version (©1984)
The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow To cast down the afflicted and the needy, To slay those who are upright in conduct.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Wicked people pull out their swords and bend their bows to kill oppressed and needy people, to slaughter those who are decent.

King James Bible
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

American King James Version
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

American Standard Version
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked have drawn out the sword : they have bent their bow. To cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart.

Darby Bible Translation
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:

English Revised Version
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow; to cast down the poor and needy, to slay such as be upright in the way:

Webster's Bible Translation
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as are of upright deportment.

World English Bible
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Geneva Study Bible

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

King James Translators' Notes

such...: Heb. the upright of way

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

14, 15. sword, and . bow-for any instruments of violence.

slay-literally, "slaughter" (1Sa 25:11).

poor and needy-God's people (Ps 10:17; 12:5). The punishment of the wicked as drawn on themselves-often mentioned (compare Ps 7:15, 16; 35:8).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

37:7-20 Let us be satisfied that God will make all to work for good to us. Let us not discompose ourselves at what we see in this world. A fretful, discontented spirit is open to many temptations. For, in all respects, the little which is allotted to the righteous, is more comfortable and more profitable than the ill-gotten and abused riches of ungodly men. It comes from a hand of special love. God provides plentifully and well, not only for his working servants, but for his waiting servants. They have that which is better than wealth, peace of mind, peace with God, and then peace in God; that peace which the world cannot give, and which the world cannot have. God knows the believer's days. Not one day's work shall go unrewarded. Their time on earth is reckoned by days, which will soon be numbered; but heavenly happiness shall be for ever. This will be a real support to believers in evil times. Those that rest on the Rock of ages, have no reason to envy the wicked the support of their broken reeds.


Psalm 11:2 For, behold, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Psalm 35:10 All my bones will say, "LORD, who is like You, Who delivers the afflicted from him who is too strong for him, And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?"
Psalm 86:1 A Prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me; For I am afflicted and needy.
Lamentations 2:4 He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire. (NASB ©1995)

Afflicted Bend Bent Bow Bows Cast Cause Conduct Conversation Crushing Death Deportment Draw Drawn Evil-Doers Fall Kill Needy Opened Poor Slaughter Slay Sword Swords Trodden Upright Uprightly Walk Way Ways Wicked


The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

wicked Ps 64:2-6 Ac 12:2,3,11,23

slay 1Sa 24:11,17 Pr 29:10,27 Hab 1:13 Mt 23:30-34 Ac 7:52 1Jo 3:12

such as [heb.] the upright of way

Bible Gateway: Psalms Chapter 37 Verse 14 NIV ESV NKJV NLT KJV Message Amplified

Alphabetical: afflicted and are bend bent bow bring cast conduct down draw drawn have in needy poor slay sword The their those to upright ways who whose wicked

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