Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 37:15
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Their sword shall enter into their own heart – Their purposes will recoil on themselves; or they will themselves suffer what they had devised for others. See the same sentiment expressed in Psa 7:15-16; Psa 9:15; compare Est 7:10.
And their bows shall be broken – They will be defeated in their plans. God will cut them off, and not suffer them to execute their designs.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 15. Their sword shall enter into their own heart] All their execrations and maledictions shall fall upon themselves, and their power to do mischief shall be broken.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
God will not only defend the upright from their mischievous designs, but will make them to fall upon their own heads.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Their sword shall enter into their own heart,…. As Saul’s did into his, 1Sa 31:4;
and their bows shall be broken; the meaning is, that their efforts shall be fruitless, and their attempts in vain; the mischief they have contrived and designed for others shall fall upon themselves; see Ps 7:15; and therefore the saints should not be fretful and envious.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
In the 15 verse, David is not speaking of the laughter of God, but is denouncing vengeance against the ungodly, just as we have already seen in the second psalm, at the fourth verse, that although God, by conniving at the wicked, has often suffered them for a time to run to every excess in mirth and rioting, yet he at length speaks to them in his anger to overthrow them. The amount of what is stated is, that the ungodly should prevail so little, that the sword which they had drawn should return into their own bowels, and that their bow should be broken in pieces.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(15) Their sword.The lex talionis. (Comp. Psa. 7:15-16.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Ver. 15. Their sword shall enter into their own heart ] As did Saul’s, and his armourbearer’s, 1Sa 31:4-5 see Psa 7:1 .
Per quod quis peccat, per idem punitur et ipse.
And their bows shall be broken ] Neither their bows only, but their arms also, Psa 37:17 . They shall utterly be disarmed and disabled when once God takes them to do; which is commonly when they are at the strongest and most confident.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
sword: Psa 7:14, Psa 7:15, Psa 35:8, 1Sa 31:4, 2Sa 17:23, Est 7:9, Est 7:10, Isa 37:38, Mic 5:6, Mat 27:4, Mat 27:5
bows: Psa 46:9, Psa 76:3-6, Jer 51:56, Hos 1:5, Hos 2:18
Reciprocal: Gen 49:24 – were made 1Sa 2:4 – The bows Est 8:11 – to destroy Est 8:13 – avenge themselves Psa 9:15 – General Psa 141:10 – the wicked Isa 8:9 – and ye