Psa 64:3-4 | JFB | STEP | 3, 4. Similar figures for slander ( ). bend —literally, "tread," or, "prepared." The allusion is to the mode of bending a bow by treading on it; here, and in , transferred to arrows.

Psalms 64:3-4

3, 4. Similar figures for slander (Ps 57:4; 59:7).

bend—literally, "tread," or, "prepared." The allusion is to the mode of bending a bow by treading on it; here, and in Ps 58:7, transferred to arrows.

4. the perfect—one innocent of the charges made (Ps 18:23).

fear not— (Ps 55:19), not regarding God.