“Let us break apart their [divine] bands [of restraint]
And cast away their cords [of control] from us.”

‘You shall break them with a rod of iron;
You shall shatter them [in pieces] like earthenware.’”

Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,
Seek out his wickedness until You find no more.

Out of the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,
Hailstones and coals of fire.

Because they have no regard for the works of the Lord
Nor the deeds of His hands,
He will tear them down and not rebuild them.

But God will break you down forever;
He will take you away and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

O God, break their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

And now all the carved work [of the meeting place]
They smash with hatchets and hammers.

You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

There He broke the flaming arrows,
The shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

Deal with them as [You did] with Midian,
As with Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon,

If they break My statutes
And do not keep My commandments,

“Nevertheless, I will not break off My lovingkindness from him,
Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.

“My covenant I will not violate,
Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth;
Shout [in jubilation] and sing for joy and sing praises.

He struck their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the [ice-laden] trees of their territory.

And a fire broke out in their company;
The flame consumed the wicked.

Therefore He said He would destroy them,
[And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices,
And a plague broke out among them.

He brought them out of darkness and the deep (deathly) darkness
And broke their bonds apart.

He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head [triumphantly].