For You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their faces.

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly they shall be wounded.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.

For by day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Remove Your stroke away from me; I am destroyed by the blow of Your hand.

You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

For indeed the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.

would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of Jehovah has gone out against me!

And the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon those of Ashdod, and He ravaged them and struck them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territories.

So they sent and gathered together all the rulers of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its own place, so that it does not kill us and our people. For there was a death panic throughout all the city, because the hand of God had been very heavy there.

And watch: if it goes up the way to its own territory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we shall know that it is not His hand that has struck us; it has happened to us by chance.