Psalm 64:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.

New Living Translation
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows.

English Standard Version
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Berean Study Bible
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

New American Standard Bible
Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrows,

NASB 1995
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

NASB 1977
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

Amplified Bible
Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword. They aim venomous words as arrows,

Christian Standard Bible
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,

Contemporary English Version
Their words cut like swords, and their cruel remarks sting like sharp arrows.

Good News Translation
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like arrows.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They sharpen their tongues like swords. They aim bitter words like arrows

International Standard Version
who sharpen their tongues like swords, and aim their bitter words like arrows,

NET Bible
They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

New King James Version
Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And bend their bows to shoot their arrows—bitter words,

King James 2000 Bible
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

New Heart English Bible
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

World English Bible
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

American King James Version
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

American Standard Version
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

A Faithful Version
Who sharpen their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words;

Darby Bible Translation
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

English Revised Version
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words:

Webster's Bible Translation
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Which whette their tuges like a swerde, & shute wt their venimous wordes like as wt arowes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Who sharpened their tongue as a sword, "" They directed their arrow—a bitter word.

Young's Literal Translation
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

Smith's Literal Translation
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

Catholic Public Domain Version
For they have sharpened their tongues like a sword; they have formed their bow into a bitter thing,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
They sharpened their tongue like a sword, and their words like an arrow

Lamsa Bible
Who whet their tongues like a sword, and charge their words with poison like an arrow,

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrow, a poisoned word;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;
















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