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3Who whet{H8804)} their tongue like a sword, and bend{H8804)} their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. …
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)David, in these verses, puts in before God a representation of his own danger and of his enemies’ character, to enforce his petition that God would protect him and punish them. I. He earnestly begs of God to preserve him ( Ps. 64:1 , 2 ): Hear my voice, O God! in my prayer ; that is, grant me the thing I pray for, and this is it, Lord, preserve my life from fear of the enemy , that is, fro the ene…
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