Psalm 37:14 The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

English Standard Version
The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright;

New American Standard Bible
The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow To cast down the afflicted and the needy, To slay those who are upright in conduct.

King James Bible
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wicked have drawn the sword and strung the bow to bring down the afflicted and needy and to slaughter those whose way is upright.

International Standard Version
The wicked take out a sword and bend the bow, to bring down the humble and the poor to slay those who are righteous in conduct.

American Standard Version
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked have drawn out the sword : they have bent their bow. To cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart.

Darby Bible Translation
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:

Young's Literal Translation
A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

Cross References

Psalm 11:2
For, see, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the string, that they may privately shoot at the upright in heart.

Psalm 17:11
They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

Psalm 22:20
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Psalm 35:10
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like to you, which deliver the poor from him that is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?

Psalm 37:32
The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

Psalm 86:1
Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Psalm 109:16
Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

Lamentations 2:4
He has bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

37:7-20 Let us be satisfied that God will make all to work for good to us. Let us not discompose ourselves at what we see in this world. A fretful, discontented spirit is open to many temptations. For, in all respects, the little which is allotted to the righteous, is more comfortable and more profitable than the ill-gotten and abused riches of ungodly men. It comes from a hand of special love. God provides plentifully and well, not only for his working servants, but for his waiting servants. They have that which is better than wealth, peace of mind, peace with God, and then peace in God; that peace which the world cannot give, and which the world cannot have. God knows the believer's days. Not one day's work shall go unrewarded. Their time on earth is reckoned by days, which will soon be numbered; but heavenly happiness shall be for ever. This will be a real support to believers in evil times. Those that rest on the Rock of ages, have no reason to envy the wicked the support of their broken reeds.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14, 15. sword, and … bow—for any instruments of violence.

slay—literally, "slaughter" (1Sa 25:11).

poor and needy—God's people (Ps 10:17; 12:5). The punishment of the wicked as drawn on themselves—often mentioned (compare Ps 7:15, 16; 35:8).