Psalm 64:3 {63:4}
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For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

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Psalm 57:4 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Proverbs 12:18 There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 30:14 A generation that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:3 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.

James 3:6-8 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell. . . .

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Psalm 11:2 In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.

Psalm 58:7 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

Context
The Hurtful Tongue
2Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity. 3For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,4To shoot in secret the undefiled.…
Cross References
Psalm 11:2
In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.

Psalm 57:4
And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:7
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

Psalm 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

Jeremiah 9:3
And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.

Lexicon
who
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

sharpen
שָׁנְנ֣וּ (šā·nə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8150: To point, to pierce, to inculcate

their tongues
לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם (lə·šō·w·nām)
Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3956: The tongue

like swords
כַחֶ֣רֶב (ḵa·ḥe·reḇ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

and aim
דָּרְכ֥וּ (dā·rə·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1869: To tread, to walk, to string a, bow

their bitter
מָֽר׃ (mār)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4751: Bitter, bitterness, bitterly

words
דָּבָ֥ר (dā·ḇār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

like arrows,
חִ֝צָּ֗ם (ḥiṣ·ṣām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2671: A piercer, an arrow, a wound, thunderbolt, the shaft of a, spear


Additional Translations
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

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

who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

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

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

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

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.
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