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Psalm 7:12
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KJ21
If he turn not, He will whet His sword; He hath bent His bow and made it ready.
ASV
If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;
AMP
If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.
AMPC
If a man does not turn and repent, [God] will whet His sword; He has strung and bent His [huge] bow and made it ready [by treading it with His foot].
BRG
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
CSB
If anyone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has strung his bow and made it ready.
CSBA
If anyone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has strung his bow and made it ready.
CEB
If someone doesn’t change their ways, God will sharpen his sword, will bend his bow, will string an arrow.
CJB
God is a righteous judge, a God whose anger is present every day.
CEV
Whenever your enemies refuse to change their ways, you sharpen your sword and string your bow.
DARBY
If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,
DRA
God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?
ERV
If the wicked will not change, then God is ready to punish them. He has prepared his deadly weapons. His sword is sharp. His bow is strung, drawn back, and ready to shoot its flaming arrow.
EASY
If they do not change the way that they live, God will prepare to punish them. He will make his sword sharp, and he will put an arrow in his bow.
EHV
If he does not relent, the Lord will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and will string it.
ESV
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
ESVUK
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
EXB
If they do not ·change their lives [repent], God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and take aim.
GNV
Except he turn, he hath whet his sword: he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
GW
If a person does not change, God sharpens his sword. By bending his bow, he makes it ready ⌞to shoot⌟.
GNT
If they do not change their ways, God will sharpen his sword. He bends his bow and makes it ready;
HCSB
If anyone does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has strung His bow and made it ready.
ICB
If they do not change their lives, God will sharpen his sword. He will string his bow and take aim.
ISV
If the ungodly one doesn’t repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and prepare it.
JUB
If he does not turn, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow and made it ready.
KJV
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
AKJV
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
LSB
If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and prepared it.
LEB
If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has strung it.
TLB
Unless they repent, he will sharpen his sword and slay them. He has bent and strung his bow
MSG
Close the book on Evil, God, but publish your mandate for us. You get us ready for life: you probe for our soft spots, you knock off our rough edges. And I’m feeling so fit, so safe: made right, kept right. God in solemn honor does things right, but his nerves are sandpapered raw. Nobody gets by with anything. God is already in action— Sword honed on his whetstone, bow strung, arrow on the string, Lethal weapons in hand, each arrow a flaming missile.
MEV
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.
NOG
If a person does not change, Elohim sharpens his sword. By bending his bow, he makes it ready to shoot.
NABRE
God is a just judge, powerful and patient, not exercising anger every day.
NASB
If one does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and taken aim.
NASB1995
If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.
NCB
God is a just judge, a God who expresses his indignation every day.
NCV
If they do not change their lives, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and take aim.
NET
If a person does not repent, God will wield his sword. He has prepared to shoot his bow.
NIRV
If evil people don’t change their ways, God will sharpen his sword. He will get his bow ready to use.
NIV
If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
NIVUK
If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
NKJV
If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready.
NLV
If a man is not sorry for his sins and will not turn from them, God will make His sword sharp. He will string His bow and make it ready.
NLT
If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
NRSVA
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
NRSVACE
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
NRSVCE
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
NRSVUE
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
OJB
If He relent not, He will sharpen His cherev; He hath bent His keshet (bow) and made it ready.
RGT
Unless he turns, He has sharpened His sword. He has bent His bow and made it ready.
RSV
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
RSVCE
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
TLV
God is a righteous judge, a God who is indignant every day.
VOICE
If the wicked do not turn from their evil deeds, God will sharpen His sword; He will bend His bow, stringing it in readiness.
WEB
If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
WYC
If ye be not converted (If they be not turned from their evil ways), he shall flourish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
YLT
If [one] turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
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