Psalm 7:12
New International Version
If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.

New Living Translation
If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.

English Standard Version
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;

Berean Standard Bible
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

King James Bible
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

New King James Version
If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready.

New American Standard Bible
If one does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and taken aim.

NASB 1995
If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

NASB 1977
If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

Legacy Standard Bible
If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and prepared it.

Amplified Bible
If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.

Christian Standard Bible
If anyone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has strung his bow and made it ready.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If anyone does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has strung His bow and made it ready.

American Standard Version
If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If he does not turn, he sharpens his sword, he bends his bow; he is ready.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
If ye will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

Contemporary English Version
Whenever your enemies refuse to change their ways, you sharpen your sword and string your bow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword: he hath bent his bow and made it ready.

English Revised Version
If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If a person does not change, God sharpens his sword. By bending his bow, he makes it ready [to shoot].

Good News Translation
If they do not change their ways, God will sharpen his sword. He bends his bow and makes it ready;

International Standard Version
If the ungodly one doesn't repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and prepare it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
If a man turn not, He will whet His sword, He hath bent His bow, and made it ready;

Literal Standard Version
If [one] does not turn, | He sharpens His sword, | He has bent His bow [and] He prepares it,

Majority Standard Bible
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

New American Bible
If one does not repent, God sharpens his sword, strings and readies the bow,

NET Bible
If a person does not repent, God sharpens his sword and prepares to shoot his bow.

New Revised Standard Version
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

New Heart English Bible
If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

Webster's Bible Translation
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

World English Bible
If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

Young's Literal Translation
If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
I Take Refuge in You
11God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day. 12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. 13He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:41
when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

Psalm 11:2
For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

Psalm 17:13
Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,

Psalm 21:12
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

Psalm 58:5
refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.

Psalm 64:7
But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

Isaiah 5:28
Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.


Treasury of Scripture

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

If

Psalm 85:4
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

Isaiah 55:6,7
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …

Jeremiah 31:18,19
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God…

he will

Deuteronomy 32:41
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

Isaiah 27:1
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 34:5
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

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Psalm 7
1. David prays against the malice of his enemies, professing his innocence
10. By faith he sees his defense, and the destruction of his enemies














(12) If he turn not.--The Hebrew is doubly idiomatic. Translate surely (see Hebrews 3:11, with Note in New Testament Commentary), He will again whet His sword. It is true that the verb to turn in the sense of repetition usually precedes the other verb immediately, without, as here, any other words intervening.

Bent.--Literally, trodden, showing that the foot was used by the Israelites to bend the bow, as by archers now. (Smith's Bible Dictionary, "Arms.")

Verse 12. - If he turn not, he (i.e. God) will whet his sword (comp. Deuteronomy 32:41; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 34:5). "Every new transgression," says Bishop Horne, "sets a fresh edge to God's sword" He hath bent his bow, and made it ready; rather, he hath bent his bow, and fixed it; i.e. held it in the position for taking aim.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

one does not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

repent,
יָ֭שׁוּב (yā·šūḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

God will sharpen
יִלְט֑וֹשׁ (yil·ṭō·wōš)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3913: To hammer out, to sharpen

His sword;
חַרְבּ֣וֹ (ḥar·bōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

He has bent
דָ֝רַ֗ךְ (ḏā·raḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1869: To tread, to walk, to string a, bow

and strung
וַֽיְכוֹנְנֶֽהָ׃ (way·ḵō·wn·ne·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3559: To be erect

His bow.
קַשְׁתּ֥וֹ (qaš·tōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7198: A bow, for, shooting, the iris


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