For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly.
Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand. When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”
They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
The hand of the Lord was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.
would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me.”
For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.
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