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Your reward should be
    sharp and flaming arrows!

But I must live as a foreigner
among the people of Meshech
    and in the tents of Kedar.[a]
I have spent too much time
living among people
    who hate peace.

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Footnotes

  1. 120.5 Meshech … Kedar: Meshech was a country near the Black Sea, and Kedar was a tribe of the Syrian desert.

He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,(A)
    with burning coals of the broom bush.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek,
    that I live among the tents of Kedar!(B)
Too long have I lived
    among those who hate peace.

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