Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow. New Living Translation If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow. English Standard Version If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; Berean Standard Bible If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. King James Bible If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. New King James Version If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready. New American Standard Bible If one does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and taken aim. NASB 1995 If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready. NASB 1977 If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready. Legacy Standard Bible If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and prepared it. Amplified Bible If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready. Christian Standard Bible If anyone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has strung his bow and made it ready. Holman Christian Standard Bible If anyone does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has strung His bow and made it ready. American Standard Version If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready; Aramaic Bible in Plain English If he does not turn, he sharpens his sword, he bends his bow; he is ready. Brenton Septuagint Translation If ye will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. Contemporary English Version Whenever your enemies refuse to change their ways, you sharpen your sword and string your bow. Douay-Rheims Bible Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword: he hath bent his bow and made it ready. English Revised Version If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. GOD'S WORD® Translation If a person does not change, God sharpens his sword. By bending his bow, he makes it ready [to shoot]. Good News Translation If they do not change their ways, God will sharpen his sword. He bends his bow and makes it ready; International Standard Version If the ungodly one doesn't repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and prepare it. JPS Tanakh 1917 If a man turn not, He will whet His sword, He hath bent His bow, and made it ready; Literal Standard Version If [one] does not turn, | He sharpens His sword, | He has bent His bow [and] He prepares it, Majority Standard Bible If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. New American Bible If one does not repent, God sharpens his sword, strings and readies the bow, NET Bible If a person does not repent, God sharpens his sword and prepares to shoot his bow. New Revised Standard Version If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow; New Heart English Bible If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow. Webster's Bible Translation If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. World English Bible If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow. Young's Literal Translation If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context I Take Refuge in You…11God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day. 12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. 13He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.… Cross References Deuteronomy 32:41 when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me. Psalm 11:2 For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart. Psalm 17:13 Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword, Psalm 21:12 For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them. Psalm 58:5 refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell. Psalm 64:7 But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. Isaiah 5:28 Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind. Treasury of Scripture If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. If Psalm 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: … Jeremiah 31:18,19 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God… he will Deuteronomy 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. Isaiah 34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. Jump to Previous Bend Bent Bow Evil Prepareth Ready Relent Repent Sharp Sharpen Sharpeneth String Strung Sword Trodden Turn Turned WhetJump to Next Bend Bent Bow Evil Prepareth Ready Relent Repent Sharp Sharpen Sharpeneth String Strung Sword Trodden Turn Turned WhetPsalm 7 1. David prays against the malice of his enemies, professing his innocence10. By faith he sees his defense, and the destruction of his enemies (12) If he turn not.--The Hebrew is doubly idiomatic. Translate surely (see Hebrews 3:11, with Note in New Testament Commentary), He will again whet His sword. It is true that the verb to turn in the sense of repetition usually precedes the other verb immediately, without, as here, any other words intervening. Bent.--Literally, trodden, showing that the foot was used by the Israelites to bend the bow, as by archers now. (Smith's Bible Dictionary, "Arms.") Verse 12. - If he turn not, he (i.e. God) will whet his sword (comp. Deuteronomy 32:41; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 34:5). "Every new transgression," says Bishop Horne, "sets a fresh edge to God's sword" He hath bent his bow, and made it ready; rather, he hath bent his bow, and fixed it; i.e. held it in the position for taking aim.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifאִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not one does not לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no repent, יָ֭שׁוּב (yā·šūḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again God will sharpen יִלְט֑וֹשׁ (yil·ṭō·wōš) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3913: To hammer out, to sharpen His sword; חַרְבּ֣וֹ (ḥar·bōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword He has bent דָ֝רַ֗ךְ (ḏā·raḵ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1869: To tread, to walk, to string a, bow and strung וַֽיְכוֹנְנֶֽהָ׃ (way·ḵō·wn·ne·hā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 3559: To be erect His bow. קַשְׁתּ֥וֹ (qaš·tōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 7198: A bow, for, shooting, the iris Links Psalm 7:12 NIVPsalm 7:12 NLT Psalm 7:12 ESV Psalm 7:12 NASB Psalm 7:12 KJV Psalm 7:12 BibleApps.com Psalm 7:12 Biblia Paralela Psalm 7:12 Chinese Bible Psalm 7:12 French Bible Psalm 7:12 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 7:12 If a man doesn't relent he will (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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