For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.
A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
Answer me quickly, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.
I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target; his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.
And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.”
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you.
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.
he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.
Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh— with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.’
“‘And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them; they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
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