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With a soldier's sharp arrows,
    with red-hot coals!

Living among you is as bad as living in Meshech
    or among the people of Kedar.[a]
I have lived too long
    with people who hate peace!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 120:5 Two distant regions, whose people were regarded as savages.

He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,(A)
    with burning coals of the broom bush.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek,
    that I live among the tents of Kedar!(B)
Too long have I lived
    among those who hate peace.

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