“Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.”
You pierced with his own arrows the head of his warriors who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret—the reversal of violence upon the violent establishes retributive justice; the arrows intended to scatter God's people scatter the enemies instead. The depiction of enemies rejoicing in secret cruelty emphasizes their moral depravity. Divine judgment transforms their weapons against them.
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