King James Version
Psalms 7:13 in the King James Version says “He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.”
Psalms 7:13 · KJV
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. judgeth: or, is a righteous judge
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit
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“He hath also prepared”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
“for him the instruments”
H3627something prepared, i.e., any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
“of death”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
“his arrows”
H2671properly, a piercer, i.e., an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of god) thunder-bolt; the shaft of a spear
“he ordaineth”
H6466to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
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