psalms 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

psalms 64:3 Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech [as] their arrow,

3, 4. Similar figures for slander (Ps 57:4; 59:7).
bend--literally, "tread," or, "prepared." The allusion is to the mode of bending a bow by treading on it; here, and in Ps 58:7, transferred to arrows.

psalms 64:3 Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech [as] their arrow,

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