But Elohim does shoot at them with an arrow; Their wounds shall be sudden.
Therefore his calamity comes suddenly; Instantly he is broken, And there is no healing.
And He sent out His arrows and scattered them, And much lightning, and confused them.
therefore this crookedness is to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, swiftly.”
One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
How suddenly they are ruined! Completely swept away through destructions.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, my spirit drinks in their poison, the onslaughts of Eloah are arrayed against me.
‘I make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword devours flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired enemy chiefs.’
“I gather evils upon them, I use up My arrows upon them –
“Then two shall be in the field, the one is taken and the one is left.
And a man drew a bow in his simplicity, and smote the sovereign of Yisra’ĕ
To shoot in ambush at someone blameless, They shoot at him suddenly and do not fear.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one event to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and then – to the dead!
“The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?