He will shoot his arrows at them and make them turn and run.

But God shoots his arrows at them, and suddenly they are wounded.

Almighty God has shot me with arrows, and their poison spreads through my body. God has lined up his terrors against me.

He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.

Day and night you punished me, LORD; my strength was completely drained, as moisture is dried up by the summer heat.

Don't punish me any more! I am about to die from your blows.

You punish our sins by your rebukes, and like a moth you destroy what we love. Indeed we are no more than a puff of wind!

The LORD kept on opposing them until he had destroyed them all.

would you wait until they had grown up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that's impossible. The LORD has turned against me, and I feel very sorry for you."

The LORD punished the people of Ashdod severely and terrified them. He punished them and the people in the surrounding territory by causing them to have tumors.

So again they sent for all the Philistine kings and said, "Send the Covenant Box of Israel back to its own place, so that it won't kill us and our families." There was panic throughout the city because God was punishing them so severely.

Then watch it go; if it goes toward the town of Beth Shemesh, this means that it is the God of the Israelites who has sent this terrible disaster on us. But if it doesn't, then we will know that he did not send the plague; it was only a matter of chance."