Psalm 64:7
New International Version
But God will shoot them with his arrows; they will suddenly be struck down.

New Living Translation
But God himself will shoot them with his arrows, suddenly striking them down.

English Standard Version
But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly.

Berean Standard Bible
But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

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

New King James Version
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; Suddenly they shall be wounded.

New American Standard Bible
But God will shoot an arrow at them; Suddenly they will be wounded.

NASB 1995
But God will shoot at them with an arrow; Suddenly they will be wounded.

NASB 1977
But God will shoot at them with an arrow; Suddenly they will be wounded.

Legacy Standard Bible
But God will shoot them with an arrow; Suddenly they will be wounded.

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly, they will be wounded.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
God will rise up and will shoot an arrow at them suddenly.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and God shall be exalted, their wounds were caused by the weapon of the foolish children,

Contemporary English Version
But God will shoot his arrows and quickly wound them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But God will shoot them with an arrow. Suddenly, they will be struck dead.

Good News Translation
But God shoots his arrows at them, and suddenly they are wounded.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
But God doth shoot at them with an arrow suddenly; Thence are their wounds.

Literal Standard Version
And God shoots them [with] an arrow, | Their wounds have been sudden,

Majority Standard Bible
But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

New American Bible
God shoots an arrow at them; in a moment they are struck down.

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

New Revised Standard Version
But God will shoot his arrow at them; they will be wounded suddenly.

New Heart English Bible
But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Hurtful Tongue
6They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious. 7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. 8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.…

Cross References
Psalm 7:12
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

Psalm 7:13
He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

Psalm 55:15
Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.


Treasury of Scripture

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

God

Psalm 7:12,13
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready…

Psalm 18:14
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

Deuteronomy 32:23,42
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them…

suddenly

Psalm 64:4
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

Psalm 73:19
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Proverbs 6:15
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

shall they be wounded.

1 Kings 22:34
And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

1 Chronicles 10:3-7
And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers…

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Psalm 64
1. David prays for deliverance, complaining of his enemies
7. He promises himself to see such an evident destruction of his enemies,
10. as the righteous shall rejoice at it.














(7, 8) The meaning of these verses is clear. In the moment of their imagined success, their deeply-laid schemes just on the point of ripening, a sudden Divine retribution overtakes the wicked, and all their calumnies, invented with such cunning, fall back on their own heads. But the construction is most perplexing. The text presents a tangled maze of abrupt clauses, which, arranged according to the accents, run: And God shoots an arrow, sudden are their wounds, and they make it (or him) fall on themselves their tongue. The last clause seems to pronounce the law which obtains in Divine judgment. While God orders the retribution it is yet the recoil of their own evil on the guilty. In these cases,

"We still have judgment here, that we but teach

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return

To plague the inventor; this evenhanded justice

Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice

To our own lips."

SHAKSPEARE: Macbeth.

Flee away.--The verb (n?dad) properly means to flutter the wings like a bird (Isaiah 10:14).

Verse 7. - But God shall shoot at them with an arrow. But God will interpose. As they have shot with their arrows at the righteous (ver. 3), so with his arrow shall God shoot at them. Suddenly shall they be wounded. The first word, "suddenly," may belong equally well either to the preceding or to the following clause. The result is all that is important. Not the righteous, but they themselves, shall receive the wound; literally, their wound shall be.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But God
אֱלֹ֫הִ֥ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

will shoot
וַיֹּרֵ֗ם (way·yō·rêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3384: To flow as water, to lay, throw, to point out, to teach

them with arrows;
חֵ֥ץ (ḥêṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2671: A piercer, an arrow, a wound, thunderbolt, the shaft of a, spear

suddenly
פִּתְא֑וֹם (piṯ·’ō·wm)
Adverb
Strong's 6597: Suddenness, suddenly

they will be
הָ֝י֗וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

wounded.
מַכּוֹתָֽם׃ (mak·kō·w·ṯām)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4347: A wound, carnage, pestilence


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