he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah
But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly.
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you.
And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”
They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.
he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
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;
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