What is the ‘target’ (matarah)? This is the cantillation note yeraḥ∞moon ֪ ben yomo (a-day-old) – the holy moon. She is most certainly a target for the ‘the eye’s daughter’, a small point inside, towards which he sends arrows, with the ‘love of the eyes’.
A ‘protector’ (matarah) the Shekhinah surely is, which protects Israel, from the evil snake Samael. And of the one
whom she protects, it is stated of him: (Ps. 91:5) You shall not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, (Ps. 91:4) With his limb (evrato) He will cover you... – this is ‘the limb’ (eiver) of ‘the living’∞ha-ḥaiy, – the Righteous-One (Yesod).