◄ Psalm 7:12 {13} ►
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Good News Translation
If they do not change their ways, God will sharpen his sword. He bends his bow and makes it ready;

New Revised Standard Version
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

Contemporary English Version
Whenever your enemies refuse to change their ways, you sharpen your sword and string your bow.

New American Bible
If one does not repent, God sharpens his sword, strings and readies the bow,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

If

Psalm 85:4 Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

Jeremiah 31:18,19 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God. . . .

Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Matthew 3:10 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.

Acts 3:19 Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

he will

Deuteronomy 32:41 If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

Isaiah 34:5 For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto judgment.

Ezekiel 21:9-11,23 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Say: The sword, the sword is sharpened, and furbished. . . .

Context
I Take Refuge in You
…11God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day? 12Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.13And in it he hath prepared to instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:41
If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.

Psalm 11:2
In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.

Psalm 17:13
Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him; deliver my soul from the wicked one; thy sword

Psalm 21:12
For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

Psalm 58:5
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

Psalm 64:7
And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

Isaiah 5:28
Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the flint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest.

Lamentations 3:12
Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

Habakkuk 3:9
Thou wilt surely take up thy bow: according to the oaths which thou hast spoken to the tribes. Thou wilt divide the rivers of the earth.

Psalm 7:11
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