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

Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for calamity, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed.

So they sent and gathered together all the lords 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 deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

" Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah

For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.

I was mute, I did not open my mouth, Because it was You who did [it.]

Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.