He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
- BSB He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
- NKJV He also prepares for Himself instruments of death; He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.
- NASB He has also prepared deadly weapons for Himself; He makes His arrows fiery shafts.
- NLT He will prepare his deadly weapons and shoot his flaming arrows.
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Quick answer
God has prepared deadly, flaming weapons against the persistently wicked. His judgment is fully equipped and sure to strike.
Overview
Continuing the imagery of verse 12, David describes God's arsenal made ready against the impenitent. The flaming arrows convey the inescapable and consuming nature of divine judgment. Such warnings are meant to drive sinners to repentance while there is still time, fleeing the wrath to come to the refuge found in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Th 1:6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
- Hab 3:13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
- Hab 3:11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
- Ps 18:14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
- Ps 45:5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
- Ps 64:7But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
- Rev 6:10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
- Rev 16:6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
- Deut 32:23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
- Ps 64:3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
- Lam 3:12–13He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Deut 32:42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
- Ps 144:6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
- Ps 11:2For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
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