He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.
The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me.
For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them.
He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy, with great bolts of lightning he routed them.
Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet.
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.
But God will shoot them with his arrows; they will suddenly be struck down.
Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.
Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.
You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot.
“I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.
when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you
for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.”
They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”