Psalm 37:15 {36:15}
Good News Translation
but they will be killed by their own swords, and their bows will be smashed.

New Revised Standard Version
their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Contemporary English Version
But they will be killed by their own swords, and their arrows will be broken.

New American Bible
Their swords will pierce their own hearts; their bows will be broken.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let their sword enter into their own hearts, and let their bow be broken.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let their sword enter into their own hearts, and let their bow be broken.

sword

Psalm 7:14,15 Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity. . . .

Psalm 35:8 Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.

1 Samuel 31:4 Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his armourbearer would not: for he was struck with exceeding great fear. Then Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

2 Samuel 17:23 But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Esther 7:9,10 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king, said: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke for the king, standeth in Aman's house, being fifty cubits high. And the king said to him: Hang him upon it. . . .

Isaiah 37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Micah 5:6 And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

Matthew 27:4,5 Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it. . . .

bows

Psalm 46:9 Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.

Psalm 76:3-6 There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword, and the battle. . . .

Hosea 1:5 And in that day I will break in pieces the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrahel.

Hosea 2:18 And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
14The wicked have drawn out the sword: they have bent their bow. To cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart. 15Let their sword enter into their own hearts, and let their bow be broken.16Better is a little to the just, than the great riches of the wicked.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:4
The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with strength.

Psalm 46:9
Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.

Psalm 37:14
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