“Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:”
The description of evildoers who whet their tongues like swords and aim bitter speech like arrows establishes that the primary weapon of enemies is linguistic: words become instruments of violence. The sharpening of the tongue suggests deliberate preparation for verbal assault. The reference to harsh speech articulates that the enemies use language to wound, humiliate, and destroy. This verse emphasizes that the threat is primarily to reputation and psychological well-being through targeted verbal attack.
Church Fathers on Psalms 64:3
1. Though chiefly the Lord's Passion is noticed in this Psalm, neither could the Martyrs have been strong, unless they had beheld Him, that first suffered; nor such things would they have endured in suffering, as He did, unless they had hoped for such things in the Resurrection as He had showed of Himself: but your Holiness knows that our Head is our Lord Jesus Christ, and that all that cleave unto Him are the members of Him the Head ....And let no one say, that now-a-days in…
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