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13 He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him;[a]
he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:13 tn Heb “and for him he has prepared the weapons of death.”
  2. Psalm 7:13 tn Heb “his arrows into flaming [things] he makes.” The verb is a prefixed form and understood as an imperfect. As a parallel to the first verb in the series, יִלְטֹשׁ (yiltosh; he will wield), it describes a final act of preparation or the beginning of engaging in battle. It is also possible that the form is a preterite and should be understood as past tense, like the preceding perfect and preterite verbs.

14 See the one who is pregnant with wickedness,
who conceives destructive plans,
and gives birth to harmful lies—

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