He drew ¹  his bow and made me ²  the target for his arrow.

I will shoot three arrows near it, as though I were shooting at a target.

I was in peace, and he has shattered me. ¹  He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. ²  He has made me his target;

If ¹  I have sinned – what have I done to you, ²  O watcher of men? ³  Why have you set me as your target? ⁴  Have I become a burden to you? ⁵ 

With his hands ¹  he covers ²  the lightning, and directs it against its target.

He had bronze shin guards ¹  on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung over his shoulders.

Moab’s destruction is at hand. Disaster will come on it quickly.

Among this army ¹  were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. ²  Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target. ³ 

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ¹  of gold were used for each shield.

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ¹  of hammered gold were used for each shield.

Scatter abroad ¹  the abundance ²  of your anger. Look at every proud man ³  and bring him low;

Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot! ¹ 

He drove his enemies back; he made them a permanent target for insults. ¹ 

צ (Tsade) You are just, O Lord, and your judgments are fair.

I will indeed ¹  see to it that disaster, not prosperity, happens to them. ²  All the people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will die in war or from starvation until not one of them is left.

They turn to Baal; ¹  they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal ²  have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt. ³ 

“Choose some people ¹  from among the exiles, namely, Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, all of whom have come from Babylon, and when you have done so go to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah. ² 

For the promise ¹  is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Brothers, ¹  descendants ²  of Abraham’s family, ³  and those Gentiles among you who fear God, ⁴  the message ⁵  of this salvation has been sent to us.

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.