Reference: Arrows
Easton
At first made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron. Arrows are sometimes figuratively put for lightning (De 32:23,42; Ps 7:13; 18:14; 144:6; Zec 9:14). They were used in war as well as in the chase (Ge 27:3; 49:23). They were also used in divination (Eze 21:21).
The word is frequently employed as a symbol of calamity or disease inflicted by God (Job 6:4; 34:6; Ps 38:2; De 32:23. Comp. Eze 5:16), or of some sudden danger (Ps 91:5), or bitter words (Ps 64:3), or false testimony (Pr 25:18).
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and now, take up, I pray thee, thy instruments, thy quiver, and thy bow, and go out to the field, and hunt for me provision,
And embitter him -- yea, they have striven, Yea, hate him do archers;
I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.
For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!
Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow -- without transgression.'
Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.
And He sendeth His arrows and scattereth them, And much lightning, and crusheth them.
For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.
Thou art not afraid of fear by night, Of arrow that flieth by day,
Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.
In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you, And I have broken to you the staff of bread.
For stood hath the king of Babylon at the head of the way, At the top of the two ways, to use divination, He hath moved lightly with the arrows, He hath asked at the teraphim, He hath looked on the liver.
And Jehovah doth appear for them, And gone forth as lightning hath His arrow, And the Lord Jehovah with a trumpet bloweth, And He hath gone with whirlwinds of the south.
Morish
With the bow, a common weapon of the ancients. We know not of what wood the arrows of the Israelites were made. Apparently the arrows were sometimes poisoned. Job 6:4; Ps 120:4; Nu 24:8; De 32:23, etc. Arrows are used metaphorically for the judgements of God, Ps 38:2; 45:5: also for anything sharp and painful, as smiting by the tongue. Jer 9:8.
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God is bringing him out of Egypt; As the swiftness of a Reem is to him, He eateth up nations his adversaries, And their bones he breaketh, And with his arrows he smiteth,
I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!
For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.
A slaughtering arrow is their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,
Smith
Arrows.
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