Psalms 57:4

David lies among lion-like enemies whose teeth and tongues are weapons. It vividly portrays the deadly hostility surrounding him.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 58:6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
• Prov 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
• Ps 35:17Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
• Ps 55:21His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
• Ps 64:3who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
• Prov 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
• Ps 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• John 4:10–11Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
• Dan 6:22–24My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
• Judg 9:20but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.”
• Prov 28:15As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
• Prov 25:18A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
• Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
• Ps 10:9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
• Ps 17:12–13He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
• Ps 22:13–16They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
• Rev 19:15Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

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