But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly.
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was wounded by the archers. Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it. And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died. Thus Saul died; he and his three sons and all his house died together. And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and lived in them.
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;
the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.
he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”
shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.
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