Salmi 18:14

14 E avventò le sue saette e disperse i nemici; lanciò folgori in gran numero e li mise in rotta.

Salmi 18:14 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 18:14

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.

Salmi 18:14 In-Context

12 Per lo splendore che lo precedeva, le dense nubi si sciolsero con gragnuola e con carboni accesi.

13 L’Eterno tuonò ne’ cieli e l’Altissimo diè fuori la sua voce con gragnuola e con carboni accesi.

14 E avventò le sue saette e disperse i nemici; lanciò folgori in gran numero e li mise in rotta.

15 Allora apparve il letto delle acque, e i fondamenti del mondo furono scoperti al tuo sgridare, o Eterno, al soffio del vento delle tue nari.

16 Egli distese dall’alto la mano e mi prese, mi trasse fuori delle grandi acque.