Psalms Chapter 64 verse 7 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 64:7

But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
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BBE Psalms 64:7

But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.
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DARBY Psalms 64:7

But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;
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KJV Psalms 64:7

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
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WBT Psalms 64:7

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
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WEB Psalms 64:7

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
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YLT Psalms 64:7

And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - But God shall shoot at them with an arrow. But God will interpose. As they have shot with their arrows at the righteous (ver. 3), so with his arrow shall God shoot at them. Suddenly shall they be wounded. The first word, "suddenly," may belong equally well either to the preceding or to the following clause. The result is all that is important. Not the righteous, but they themselves, shall receive the wound; literally, their wound shall be.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7, 8) The meaning of these verses is clear. In the moment of their imagined success, their deeply-laid schemes just on the point of ripening, a sudden Divine retribution overtakes the wicked, and all their calumnies, invented with such cunning, fall back on their own heads. But the construction is most perplexing. The text presents a tangled maze of abrupt clauses, which, arranged according to the accents, run: And God shoots an arrow, sudden are their wounds, and they make it (or him) fall on themselves their tongue. The last clause seems to pronounce the law which obtains in Divine judgment. While God orders the retribution it is yet the recoil of their own evil on the guilty. In these cases,"We still have judgment here, that we but teachBloody instructions, which, being taught, returnTo plague the inventor; this evenhanded justiceCommends the ingredients of our poisoned chaliceTo our own lips."SHAKSPEARE: Macbeth.Flee away.--The verb (n?dad) properly means to flutter the wings like a bird (Isaiah 10:14).