Psalms 7:13
He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
BSB
ASV
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery shafts.
KJV
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
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.
Fifthly, The destruction of impenitent sinners, though it come slowly, yet comes surely; for it is ordained, they are of old ordained to it. Sixthly, Of all sinners persecutors are set up as the fairest marks of divine wrath; against them, more than any other, God has ordained his arrows. They set God at defiance, but cannot set themselves out of the reach of his judgments.
Even now the thirsty arrow longs to wet itself with the blood of the persecutor. The bow is bent, the aim is taken, the arrow is fitted to the string, and what, O sinner, if the arrow should be let fly at thee even now! Remember, God's arrows never miss the mark, and are, every one of them, "instruments of death." Judgment may tarry, but it will not come too late. The Greek proverb saith, "The mill of God grinds late, but grinds to powder."
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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2 Thessalonians 1:6After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
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For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.
Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?
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Revelation 16:6For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
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I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your…
The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your…
And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”
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Habakkuk 3:13You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah
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He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.
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Psalms 45:5Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.
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For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.