A moment in scripture
Psalms 64:3
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Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 64:1
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
- Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
- Psalms 64:4
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
- Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.