For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
Cross References
Psalm 7:12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
Psalm 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Psalm 37:14The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
Psalm 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
Psalm 64:4ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
Psalm 125:4Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart.
Treasury of Scripture
For, see, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the string, that they may privately shoot at the upright in heart.
For, lo
Psalm 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalm 37:14
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Psalm 64:3
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
make
Psalm 21:12
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
that
Psalm 10:8,9
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor…
Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Psalm 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
privily.
Psalm 7:10
My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
Psalm 32:11
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Psalm 64:10
The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
