Psalms 144:6

He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.

“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.

The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: “This one was born there.”

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Why are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.

Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought out the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”