⁷ And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

¹² If `one' turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,

¹³ Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.

² for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

³ for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

⁵¹ and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

⁴⁰ Then two men shall be in the field, the one is received, and the one is left;

¹² He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

¹³ He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.

¹³ Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

¹ A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

¹⁵ Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.

¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

⁴ To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

¹⁴ And He sendeth His arrows and scattereth them, And much lightning, and crusheth them.

⁴ For arrows of the Mighty `are' with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves `for' me!

³ And the battle `is' heavy on Saul, and those shooting with the bow find him, and he is wounded by those shooting,

⁴ and Saul saith unto the bearer of his weapons, `Draw thy sword, and pierce me with it, lest these uncircumcised come -- and have abused me.' And the bearer of his weapons hath not been willing, for he feareth exceedingly, and Saul taketh the sword, and falleth upon it;

⁵ and the bearer of his weapons seeth that Saul `is' dead, and falleth, he also, on the sword, and dieth;

⁶ and Saul dieth, and his three sons, and all his house -- together they died.

⁷ And all the men of Israel who `are' in the valley see that they have fled, and that Saul and his sons have died, and they forsake their cities and flee, and the Philistines come and dwell in them.

³⁴ And a man hath drawn with a bow, in his simplicity, and smiteth the king of Israel between the joinings and the coat of mail, and he saith to his charioteer, `Turn thy hand, and take me out from the camp, for I have become sick.'

⁴² 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.

²³ I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.