Psalm 64:7 {63:8}
Good News Translation
But God shoots his arrows at them, and suddenly they are wounded.

New Revised Standard Version
But God will shoot his arrow at them; they will be wounded suddenly.

Contemporary English Version
But God will shoot his arrows and quickly wound them.

New American Bible
God shoots an arrow at them; in a moment they are struck down.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

God

Psalm 7:12,13 Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. . . .

Psalm 18:14 And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.

Deuteronomy 32:23,42 I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them. . . .

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Lamentations 3:12,13 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows. . . .

suddenly

Psalm 64:4 To shoot in secret the undefiled.

Psalm 73:19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

Proverbs 6:15 Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

Proverbs 29:1 The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.

Isaiah 30:13 Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for.

Matthew 24:40,50,51 Then two shall be in the field. One shall be taken and one shall be left. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:2,3 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night. . . .

shall they be wounded.

1 Kings 22:34 And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a venture, and chanced to strike the king of Israel, between the lungs and the stomach. But he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the army, for I am grievously wounded.

1 Chronicles 10:3-7 And the battle grew hard against Saul and the archers reached him, and wounded him with arrows. . . .

Context
The Hurtful Tongue
6They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart: 7And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:8And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;…
Cross References
Psalm 7:12
Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Psalm 7:13
And in it he hath prepared to instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.

Psalm 55:15
Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

Psalm 64:6
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