For behold the sinners have bent their [bow], they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot secretly at the upright in heart.

Your weapons are sharpened, O Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under You) [they are] in the heart of the king's enemies.

who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;

and God shall be exalted, their wounds were [caused by] the weapon of the foolish children,

Send lightning, and You shall scatter them: send forth Your arrows, and You shall discomfit them.

I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with My weapons against them.

I will make My weapons drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh[, it shall gorge itself] with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the heads of [their] enemies that rule over them.

For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

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

He has caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.

The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: Your darts shall go forth at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of Your spear.

You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed: You shall bring death on the heads of transgressors; You have brought bands upon their neck. Pause.

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

And they cried [with] a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"

Because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You gave them blood to drink. They deserve it."