Psalms 144:6
Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
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ASV
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
KJV
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
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Psalms 21:12For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
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If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
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You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
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Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
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When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
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Deuteronomy 32:42I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
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I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the…
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Flash forth the lightning, and you shall scatter them. See what he says. He did not say, you shall destroy them: but, you shall scatter them. We read in Genesis, at that time when they were building the tower, God says: 'Come, let us descend and confound their tongue' lest at some time they should have agreement among themselves; but let them be scattered abroad, it profits them.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. The Eternal can hurl his lightnings wheresoever he pleases, and effect his purpose instantaneously. The artillery of heaven soon puts the enemy to flight: a single bolt sets the armies running hither and thither in utter rout. Shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. Jehovah never misses the mark; his arrows are fatal to his foes when he goes forth to war.