Psalms 7:12 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 7:12

If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;

KJV

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

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Commentary

3 voices

Basil of Caesarea

HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 11:7 (PS 7) (379)

Just as men who are polishing up their arms indicate by this action the attack in war, so Scripture, wishing to bespeak a movement of God toward vengeance, says that he polishes his sword. "He has bent his bow." … There is no bowstring that stretches the bow of God, but a punitive power, now strained tight, again loosened. Scripture threatens the sinner that future punishments are prepared for him, if he remains in his sin.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

If he turn not - This clause the Syriac adds to the preceding verse. Most of the versions read, “If ye return not.” Some contend, and not without a great show of probability, that the two verses should be read in connection, thus: “God is a just Judge; a God who is provoked every day. If (the sinner) turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.” This, no doubt, gives the sense of both.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 1 (1869)

"If he turn not, he will whet his sword." What blows are those which will be dealt by that long uplifted arm! God's sword has been sharpening upon the revolving stone of our daily wickedness, and if we will not repent, it will speedily cut us in pieces. Turn or burn is the sinner's only alternative. "He hath bent his bow and made it ready."

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יָ֭שׁוּב	Ya.shuv	anyone will repent	H7725 →
חַרְבּ֣וֹ	char.Bo	sword his	H2719 →
יִלְט֑וֹשׁ	yil.To.osh	he will sharpen	H3913 →
קַשְׁתּ֥וֹ	kash.To	bow his	H7198 →
דָ֝רַ֗ךְ	da.Rakh	he has bent	H1869 →
וַֽיְכוֹנְנֶֽהָ׃	Vay.kho.Ne.ha	and he has prepared it	H3559 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 3:19
Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
leads to
- Acts 2:38
  Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Isaiah 44:22
  I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Isaiah 43:25
  I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Isaiah 1:16–20
  Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
- Matthew 13:15
  For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts,…
Through
Matthew 3:10
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
leads to
- John 15:6
  If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
- Luke 3:9
  The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
- Matthew 7:19
  Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

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Commentary

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