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Psalms 7:12
Psalms 7:12 is verse 12 of Psalms chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
King James Version
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.
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Psalms 7:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.
12 If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
13 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
14 Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
Jeremiah 31:19After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
Ezekiel 18:30Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
Ezekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Matthew 3:10The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Acts 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
Deuteronomy 32:41when 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.
Isaiah 27:1In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent —Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
Isaiah 34:5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Ezekiel 21:9“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—
Ezekiel 21:10it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.
Ezekiel 21:11The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished, to be placed in the hand of the slayer.
Ezekiel 21:23It will seem like a false omen to the eyes of those who have sworn allegiance to him, but it will draw attention to their guilt and take them captive.