Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

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Send forth lightning(A) and scatter(B) the enemy;
    shoot your arrows(C) and rout them.

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23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

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13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

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13 The Lord thundered(A) from heaven;
    the voice of the Most High resounded.[a]
14 He shot his arrows(B) and scattered the enemy,
    with great bolts of lightning(C) he routed them.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 18:13 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 2 Samuel 22:14); most Hebrew manuscripts resounded, / amid hailstones and bolts of lightning

42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

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42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,(A)
    while my sword devours flesh:(B)
the blood of the slain and the captives,
    the heads of the enemy leaders.”

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17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

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17 The clouds poured down water,(A)
    the heavens resounded with thunder;(B)
    your arrows(C) flashed back and forth.
18 Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,(D)
    your lightning(E) lit up the world;
    the earth trembled and quaked.(F)

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Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

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Let your sharp arrows(A) pierce the hearts(B) of the king’s enemies;(C)
    let the nations fall beneath your feet.

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12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

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12 You will make them turn their backs(A)
    when you aim at them with drawn bow.

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12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

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12 If he does not relent,(A)
    he[a] will sharpen his sword;(B)
    he will bend and string his bow.(C)
13 He has prepared his deadly weapons;
    he makes ready his flaming arrows.(D)

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  1. Psalm 7:12 Or If anyone does not repent, / God

12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

14 The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

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12 He made darkness(A) his canopy around him—
    the dark[a] rain clouds of the sky.
13 Out of the brightness of his presence
    bolts of lightning(B) blazed forth.
14 The Lord thundered(C) from heaven;
    the voice of the Most High resounded.
15 He shot his arrows(D) and scattered the enemy,
    with great bolts of lightning he routed them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 22:12 Septuagint (see also Psalm 18:11); Hebrew massed