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You readied your bow,
    you filled your bowstring with arrows.
Selah

You split the earth with rivers;
10     at the sight of you the mountains writhed.
The clouds poured down water;
    the deep roared loudly.
The sun[a] forgot to rise,
11     the moon left its lofty station,(A)
At the light of your flying arrows,
    at the gleam of your flashing spear.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:10–11 Sun…moon: heavenly figures who, like pestilence and plague (v. 5), serve in God’s army, or are startled at God’s appearance, as are the ancient constellations (v. 6).