Psalm 18:14
Read Psalm 18:14 Using Other Translations
What does Psalm 18:14 mean?
Yea, he sent out his arrows
By which thunderbolts, cracks of thunder, and flashes of
lightning, seem to be meant; see ( Psalms 77:17
Psalms
77:18 ) ( 144:6 ) ;
comparable to arrows shot, and sent out of a bow; and may denote,
either the doctrines of the Gospel, which were sharp in the
hearts of Christ's enemies, and are either the means of subduing
them to him, or of destroying them, being the savour of death
unto death; or however, like arrows, give great pain and
uneasiness where they stick, and grievously distress and torment;
as does the fire which comes out of the mouth of the two
witnesses, ( Revelation
11:5 Revelation
11:10 ) . The Targum is,
``he sent his word as arrows;''or else the judgments of God are meant, as famine, pestilence, and the sword, which God sent unto, and spent upon the Jewish nation, ( Deuteronomy 32:23 ) ;
and scattered them;
among the nations of the world, where they have been dispersed
ever since;
and he shot out lightnings;
or "many lightnings", so the Targum:
and discomfited them;
troubled, terrified, and distressed them.
