Deuteronomy 32:23-24

32:23 I will increase their ¹  disasters,

I will use up my arrows on them.

32:24 They will be starved by famine,

eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; ² 

I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,

along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

Psalms 7:13

7:13 He prepares to use deadly weapons against him; ³ 

he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows. ⁴ 

Psalms 91:5-7

91:5 You need not fear the terrors of the night, ⁵ 

the arrow that flies by day,

91:6 the plague that comes in the darkness,

or the disease that comes at noon. ⁶ 

91:7 Though a thousand may fall beside you,

and a multitude on your right side,

it ⁷  will not reach you.

Lamentations 3:12

3:12 He drew ⁸  his bow and made me ⁹ 

the target for his arrow.

[32:23]  ¹ tn Heb “upon them.”

[32:24]  ² tn The Hebrew term קֶטֶב (qetev) is probably metaphorical here for the sting of a disease (HALOT 1091-92 s.v.).

[7:13]  ³ tn Heb “and for him he prepares the weapons of death.”

[7:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “his arrows into flaming [things] he makes.”

[91:5]  ⁵ tn This probably alludes to a sneak attack by enemies in the darkness of night (see Song 3:8).

[91:6]  ⁶ sn As in Deut 32:23-24, vv. 5-6 closely associate military attack and deadly disease. Perhaps the latter alludes to one of the effects of siege warfare on the population of an entrapped city, which was especially vulnerable to the outbreak of epidemics.

[91:7]  ⁷ tn Apparently the deadly disease mentioned in v. 6b is the understood subject here.

[3:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “bent.”

[3:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “and set me as the target.”