Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Mga Awit 78:9

רמה בים, another way of saying השליך, “He flung (into the sea).” Psalms 78,9 speaking of רומי קשת, also uses the root רמה as “throwing, flinging.”

He is challenged in combat by three champions, archers (1 Chronicles 12:2), on the side of Faith, resolved to demonstrate and prove that there is a God who judges the earth (Psalms 58:12); whose eyes watch over the ways of men, rewarding each according to his path, as his deeds warrant (Jeremiah 32:19); that man is master of his own deeds and has freedom of choice; and that God, through His personal Providence, is the sole Ruler of all the world's affairs, there being no other. And so they too, with wisdom and knowledge, pinned their colors to the mast (Psalms 74:4) in a spirit of investigative and philosophical contemplation. However, the heretic's arguments and proofs triumphed over their answers and so these skilled bowmen turned and fled in the hour of battle (Psalms 78:9), for the enemy prevailed.⁶Lamentations 1:16. There is here is a play on the name Job in Hebrew – איוב, and the Hebrew word for enemy – אויב: the 'enemy' is Job! In seeking a possible explanation for why God had allowed such terrible afflictions to befall Job, some of the Talmudic Sages (TB Baba Batra 16a) speculated on the possibility that He had confused איוב (Job) with אויב (enemy). However, these musings are all refuted by their colleagues.

ישק, he will motivate people through clever use of weaponry to attack their enemies. The use of the word נשק meaning weapons occurs in Kings II 10,2 as עיר מבצר והנשק, “a fortified city and weaponry.” We also find it used in this sense in Psalms 78,9 נושקי רומי קשת, “being armed and carrying bows.”