the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Psalms 18:14
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He shot his arrows and scattered them;he hurled lightning bolts and routed them.
He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, lightnings manifold, and routed them.
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.
He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies. His many bolts of lightning confused them with fear.
He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.
He sent out His arrows and scattered them; And He sent an abundance of lightning flashes and confused and routed them [in defeat].
He sent out His arrows, and scattered them, And lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.
He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, lightnings manifold, and routed them.
Then hee sent out his arrowes and scattred them, and he increased lightnings and destroyed them.
He sent out His arrows, and scattered them,And lightning flashes in abundance, and threw them into confusion.
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
You scattered your enemies with arrows of lightning.
" Adonai also thundered in heaven, Ha‘Elyon sounded his voice — hailstones and fiery coals.
He scattered his enemies with his arrows— the lightning bolts that threw them into confusion.
Yea, he sent out his arrows and scattered them; and he multiplied his lightnings and confused them.
He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies; with flashes of lightning he sent them running.
And he shot his arrows and scattered them, and many lightning bolts and routed them.
Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and confounded them.
He sent out his arowes & scatred the, he cast sore lighteninges, & destroyed the.
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High gave forth His voice; hailstones and coals of fire.
Yea, he sent out his arrowes, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
He shot out his arrowes, and scattered them: he cast foorth much lyghtnynges, and destroyed them.
And he sent forth his weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
And the Lord thundrid fro heuene; and the hiyeste yaf his vois, hail and the coolis of fier `camen doun.
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe, Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them.
He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies; great bolts of lightning flashed, and they were confused.
He sent out His arrows and divided them. He threw down lightning and sent them running.
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.
And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them, yea, lightnings, he shot out, and confused them.
(17-15) And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.
And He sendeth His arrows and scattereth them, And much lightning, and crusheth them.
He sent out His arrows, and scattered them, And lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.
Contextual Overview
To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,
I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength. 2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. 3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 4 The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. 5 The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me. 6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears. 7 Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth. 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it. 9 And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Yea: Psalms 21:12, Psalms 77:17, Numbers 24:8, Deuteronomy 32:23, Deuteronomy 32:42, Joshua 10:10, Job 6:4, Isaiah 30:30, Habakkuk 3:11
he shot: Psalms 144:6, Job 38:35, Job 40:9-12, Zechariah 9:14, Zechariah 9:15
Reciprocal: Exodus 14:24 - looked unto Numbers 21:30 - have shot 1 Samuel 2:10 - he thunder 2 Samuel 22:15 - arrows 2 Kings 19:7 - a blast Psalms 64:7 - God Psalms 140:10 - burning coals Jeremiah 46:15 - the Lord Ezekiel 13:11 - there shall Daniel 5:9 - greatly Revelation 4:5 - proceeded
Cross-References
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.
And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.
And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men standing near him. And when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself to the earth,
And he said, I will certainly return to thee at [this] time of the year, and behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.
And Jehovah said to Moses, Hath Jehovah's hand become short? Now shalt thou see whether my word will come to pass unto thee or not.
Thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a God great and terrible.
that then Jehovah thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will gather thee again from all the peoples whither Jehovah thy God hath scattered thee.
And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: perhaps Jehovah will work for us; for there is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.
And he said, At this appointed time, when thy term is come, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.
Lo, God is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Yea, he sent out his arrows,.... By which thunderbolts, cracks of thunder, and flashes of lightning, seem to be meant; see
Psalms 77:17; comparable to arrows shot, and sent out of a bow; and may denote, either the doctrines of the Gospel, which were sharp in the hearts of Christ's enemies, and are either the means of subduing them to him, or of destroying them, being the savour of death unto death; or however, like arrows, give great pain and uneasiness where they stick, and grievously distress and torment; as does the fire which comes out of the mouth of the two witnesses, Revelation 11:5. The Targum is,
"he sent his word as arrows;''
or else the judgments of God are meant, as famine, pestilence, and the sword, which God sent unto, and spent upon the Jewish nation,
Deuteronomy 32:23;
and scattered them; among the nations of the world, where they have been dispersed ever since;
and he shot out lightnings; or "many lightnings", so the Targum:
and discomfited them; troubled, terrified, and distressed them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Yea, he sent out his arrows - The word arrows here probably refers to the lightnings mentioned in the other clause of the verse. Those lightnings scattered around, and accomplishing such destruction, seemed to be arrows sent forth from the hand of God.
And scattered them - Herder refers this to the lightnings; DeWette, to the enemies of the psalmist. The latter seems to be the more correct interpretation, though the enemies of the psalmist are not here particularly specified. They seem, however, to have been in his eye throughout the psalm, for it was the victory achieved over them by the divine interposition that he was celebrating throughout the poem.
And he shot out lightnings - As arrows; or, as from a bow.
And discomfited them - literally, to impel, to drive; then, to put in commotion or consternation. The allusion is to an army whose order is disturbed, or which is thrown into confusion, and which is, therefore, easily conquered. The idea is that David achieved a victory over all his enemies, as if God had scattered them by a storm and tempest.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 18:14. He sent out his arrows - he shot out lightnings — I believe the latter clause to be an illustration of the former. He sent out his arrows-that is, he shot out lightnings; for lightnings are the arrows of the Lord, and there is something very like the arrowhead apparent in the zigzag lightning. Sense and sound are wonderfully combined in the Hebrew of this last clause: וברכים רב ויהמם uberakim rab vaihummem, "and thunderings he multiplied and confounded them." Who does not hear the bursting, brattling, and pounding of thunder in these words? See Delaney?
