Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 57:4, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
- Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
- Psalms 35:17
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
- Psalms 55:21
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
- Psalms 64:3
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
- Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
- John 4:10
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him…
- Daniel 6:22
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also b…
- Psalms 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of …
- Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
- Proverbs 25:18
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
More to meet God in Psalms
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.