Psalm 11:2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 See how the wicked string their bows,
fit their arrows to the string
to shoot from the shadows at the upright of heart.(A)
Psalm 37:14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Heth
14 The wicked unsheath their swords;
they string their bows
To fell the poor and oppressed,
to slaughter those whose way is upright.(A)
Psalm 55:22
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
22 Softer than butter is his speech,
but war is in his heart.
Smoother than oil are his words,
but they are unsheathed swords.(A)
Psalm 57:5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 I must lie down in the midst of lions
hungry for human prey.(A)
Their teeth are spears and arrows;
their tongue, a sharpened sword.(B)
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