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Psalms 7:14

And in it he hath prepared the instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.

Challoner: For them that burnThat is, against the persecutors of his saints.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Et in eo paravit vasa mortis, sagittas suas ardentibus effecit.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ ἡτοίμασεν σκεύη θανάτου, τὰ βέλη αὐτοῦ τοῖς καιομένοις ἐξειργάσατο.
Hebrew (WLC): וְ֭לוֹ הֵכִ֣ין כְּלֵי מָ֑וֶת חִ֝צָּ֗יו לְֽדֹלְקִ֥ים יִפְעָֽל

Haydock's commentary

For them that burn. That is, against the persecutors of his saints. (G.[Calmet?])

Hebrew also, "he has made his arrows to burn." (Houbigant after Symmachus.) (Haydock)

The ancients used fiery darts or arrows, Psalm cix., and Ephesians vi. 16.

Sed magnum stridens contorta phalarica venit,

Fulminis acta modo. (Virgil, Æneid ix.; Herod.[Herodotus?] viii.)

The death of Saul seems to be foretold. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.

The Fathers on this verse

St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm VII

14. “And in it He hath prepared the instruments of death: He hath wrought His arrows for the burning” ( ver. 13 ). That bow then I would readily take to be the Holy Scripture, in which by the strength of the New Testament, as by a sort of string, the hardness of the Old has been bent and subdued. From thence the Apostles are sent forth like arrows, or divine preachings are shot. Which arrows “He has wrought for the burning,” arrows, that is, whereby being stricken they might be inflamed with heavenly love. …