And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
He sent out arrows, and scattered them, х chitsiym (H2671)]. Arrows, when applied metaphorically to God, signify sometimes calamities inflicted upon men, such as famine, pestilence, etc.; at other times, lightnings (cf. Psalms 144:6; Habakkuk 3:11); and that this is the sense which the word bears here is obvious from the latter half of the parallelism, in which х baaraaq (H1300), lightning, is taken collectively-lightnings] the statement is repeated in plain language.