Psalms 37:15 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 37:15

Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

KJV

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ASV

Their sword shall enter into their own heart, And their bows shall be broken.

WEB

But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

YLT

Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.

DBT

their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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15 verses on the floor

Psalms 7:14–15
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
1 Samuel 2:4
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Psalms 35:8
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Jeremiah 51:56
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite.
1 Samuel 31:4
Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

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, 18, 19, 22-25, 28, 29, 37 . He prescribes very good remedies against this sin of envying the prosperity of the wicked, and great encouragement to use those remedies,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

They prepare instruments of death, the sword and the bow, no less will serve; they hunt for the precious life. That which they design is to cast down and slay; it is the blood of the saints they thirst after.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

); the instruments of their cruelty shall fail them and they shall lose those whom they had made tools of to serve their bloody purposes with; nay, their arms shall be broken, so that they shall not be able to go on with their enterprises,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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