The King James Version Bible

Psalms 11:2

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

Cross References

  1. My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
  2. Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
  3. The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
  4. And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
  5. And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
  6. And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
  7. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
  8. The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
  9. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
  10. Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
  11. Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
  12. The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
  13. But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
  14. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
  15. Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
  16. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
  17. And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
  18. And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul. Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.