Psalm 64:3
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New International Version (©1984)
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like deadly arrows.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows.

English Standard Version (©2001)
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They sharpen their tongues like swords. They aim bitter words like arrows

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

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

American Standard Version
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

Bible in Basic English
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

Darby Bible Translation
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

English Revised Version
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words:

Webster's Bible Translation
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

World English Bible
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

Young's Literal Translation
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(d) False reports and slanders.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3, 4. Similar figures for slander (Ps 57:4; 59:7).

bend-literally, "tread," or, "prepared." The allusion is to the mode of bending a bow by treading on it; here, and in Ps 58:7, transferred to arrows.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

64:1-6 The psalmist earnestly begs of God to preserve him from disquieting fear. The tongue is a little member, but it boasts great things. The upright man is the mark at which the wicked aim, they cannot speak peaceably either of him or to him. There is no guard against a false tongue. It is bad to do wrong, but worse to encourage ourselves and one another in it. It is a sign that the heart is hardened to the greatest degree, when it is thus fully set to do evil. A practical disbelief of God's knowledge of all things, is at the bottom of every wickedness. The benefit of a good cause and a good conscience, appears most when nothing can help a man against his enemies, save God alone, who is always a present help.


Psalm 58:7 Let them flow away like water that runs off; When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.
Psalm 140:3 They sharpen their tongues as a serpent; Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah. (NASB ©1995)

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

whet Ps 57:4 Pr 12:18 30:14 Isa 54:17 Jer 9:3 Jas 3:6-8

bend Ps 11:2 58:7

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