For You will make them turn their backs; You will aim Your bow [of divine justice] at their faces.
If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done You, O You Watcher and Keeper of men? Why have You set me as a mark for You, so that I am a burden to myself [and You]?
And He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He flashed forth lightnings and put them to rout.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
You make us to turn back from the enemy, and they who hate us take spoil for themselves.
Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I cry out; this I know, for God is for me. [Rom. 8:31.]
But God will shoot an unexpected arrow at them; and suddenly shall they be wounded.
When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before You.
Take counsel together [against Judah], but it shall come to nought; speak the word, but it will not stand, for God is with us [Immanuel]!
He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.