Yes, ¹  my spirit was bitter, ²  and my insides felt sharp pain. ³ 

but in the end ¹  she is bitter ²  as wormwood, ³  sharp as a two-edged ⁴  sword.

Its underparts ¹  are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. ² 

Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet. ¹ 

Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; ¹  it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. ² 

Here’s how! ¹  With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals. ² 

His words are as smooth as butter, ¹  but he harbors animosity in his heart. ²  His words seem softer than oil, but they are really like sharp swords. ³ 

I am surrounded by lions; I lie down ¹  among those who want to devour me; ²  men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword. ³ 

Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, ¹  so is the one who testifies against ²  his neighbor as a false witness. ³ 

“Look, I am making you like ¹  a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. ²  You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw. ³ 

He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened ¹  arrow, he hid me in his quiver. ² 

“‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers ¹  or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. ²  Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ¹  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ²  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.