Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them. God's "arrows" are often spoken of. Job felt them within him (Job 6:4). David has already said of them, that they are "ordained against the persecutors'' (Psalms 7:13).
We may understand by the expression any sharp pains, mental or bodily, which God sends. And he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. The effect of the tempest of God's wrath is to "scatter" and "discomfit" the enemy (comp.
Exodus 14:24). Instead of" and he shot out lightnings," our Revisers give, and lightnings manifold, which is perhaps better.