For the arrows of the Almighty {are} within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, {even} Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me. {tarry: Heb. hope} {it grieveth...: Heb. I have much bitterness}

And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, {then} he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that {it is} not his hand {that} smote us: it {was} a chance {that} happened to us. {he: or, it}

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. {blow: Heb. conflict}

But God shall shoot at them {with} an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. {shall they...: Heb. their wound shall be}

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 again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. {us not...: Heb. me not, and my}

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, {when} thou shalt make ready {thine arrows} upon thy strings against the face of them. {shalt thou...: or, thou shalt set them as a butt} {back: Heb. shoulder}

For the arrows of the Almighty {are} within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Thine arrows {are} sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; {whereby} the people fall under thee.

Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me. {tarry: Heb. hope} {it grieveth...: Heb. I have much bitterness}

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? {the body...: or, this body of death}

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord {is} upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.