There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
There. Hengstenberg translates, 'Hence,' from this place, so that they are broken in falling from it.
Brake he the arrows of the bow - literally, 'the flames' or 'the lightnings of the bow,' poetically for the glittering swift arrows, (Deuteronomy 32:41, and Nahum 3:3, relating to the Assyrians, as here; cf. Psalms 78:48, margin)
The shield, and the sword, and the battle. "The battle," placed last, indicates that not merely was the enemy defeated, but at one stroke the whole war was put an end to. The parallel, Psalms 46:9, illustrates this. Not as some translate, 'the accoutrements of battle.'