The wicked have drawn out the sword, &c.— I cannot but think, says a writer on the Psalms, that these are figurative expressions; and that David understood by these weapons, with which he has furnished the ungodly, their bitter and malicious invectives, their foul and false reproaches, &c. These were the arms, in the use of which, as he frequently complains, they were admirably well skilled. In short, this verse seems to be explained to this sense by Psalms 57:4 where, speaking of wicked men, it is said, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword: and, if so, then the next verse will mean, that their intention will be frustrated; they shall not do the mischief that they intended; their bows shall be broken, and their invectives and calumnies shall recoil, and do themselves hurt; their sharp sword, their false and malicious tongues, shall pierce through their own soul. And that this was the Psalmist's meaning, who can doubt, after reading Psalms 64:3 where the wicked doers are said to have whet their tongue like a sword, and to shoot out their arrows, even bitter words? By the way, this agrees well with the learned author's conjecture mentioned above.
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Psalms 37:14
14 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.