Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow. New Living Translation For they will turn and run when they see your arrows aimed at them. English Standard Version For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows. Berean Standard Bible For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them. King James Bible Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. New King James Version Therefore You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces. New American Standard Bible For You will make them turn their back; You will take aim at their faces with Your bowstrings. NASB 1995 For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces. NASB 1977 For Thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt aim with Thy bowstrings at their faces. Legacy Standard Bible For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces. Amplified Bible For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat]; You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces. Christian Standard Bible Instead, you will put them to flight when you ready your bowstrings to shoot at them. Holman Christian Standard Bible Instead, you will put them to flight when you aim your bow at their faces. American Standard Version For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Put a scar within them and establish your preparation against their faces. Brenton Septuagint Translation For thou shalt make them turn their back in thy latter end, thou wilt prepare their face. Contemporary English Version You will make them run away by shooting your arrows at their faces. Douay-Rheims Bible For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face. English Revised Version For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them. GOD'S WORD® Translation They turn their backs [and flee] because you aim your bow at their faces. Good News Translation He will shoot his arrows at them and make them turn and run. International Standard Version Indeed, you will make them retreat, when you aim your bow at their faces. JPS Tanakh 1917 For thou shalt make them turn their back, Thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them. Literal Standard Version For You make them turn their back, | When You prepare Your strings against their faces. Majority Standard Bible For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them. New American Bible For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bow. NET Bible For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them. New Revised Standard Version For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows. New Heart English Bible For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face. Webster's Bible Translation Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thy arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. World English Bible For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face. Young's Literal Translation For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context After the Battle…11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail. 12For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them. 13Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.… Cross References Exodus 23:27 I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run. Psalm 7:12 If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. Psalm 7:13 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire. Psalm 18:40 You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me. Treasury of Scripture Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against the face of them. therefore Psalm 9:3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. Psalm 44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. Psalm 56:9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. make. Job 7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? Job 16:12,13 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark… Lamentations 3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. back [heb. Psalm 7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Psalm 18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. Psalm 64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. Jump to Previous Aim Arrows Backs Bow Bows Bowstring Bowstrings Cords Drawn Face Faces Flight Makest Preparest Ready Strings Turn Turned WiltJump to Next Aim Arrows Backs Bow Bows Bowstring Bowstrings Cords Drawn Face Faces Flight Makest Preparest Ready Strings Turn Turned WiltPsalm 21 1. A thanksgiving for victory7. with confidence of further success (12) Therefore.--Literally, for thou shalt put them shoulder (pones eos dorsum, Vulg.). Upon thy strings thou shalt aim against the face of them. Ewald renders: "Shalt strike them back;" but the English version seems to explain rightly To "give the neck of an enemy" (Psalm 18:4) is a similar form of expression.Verse 12. - Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back; literally, their neck (comp. Psalm 18:40). The meaning is simply, "Thou shalt put them to flight." When thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. The Authorized Version, by supplying "when" and "thine arrows," expresses what the psalmist has left to the intelligence of the reader. The psalmist says, "Thou shalt put them to flight; thou shalt make ready upon thy strings against the face of them, no doubt meaning that the discharge of arrows would produce the hasty flight, but not saying it. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֭י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction You will put them to flight תְּשִׁיתֵ֣מוֹ (tə·šî·ṯê·mōw) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural Strong's 7896: To put, set when Your bow בְּ֝מֵֽיתָרֶ֗יךָ (bə·mê·ṯā·re·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 4340: A cord, the string is trained תְּכוֹנֵ֥ן (tə·ḵō·w·nên) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 3559: To be erect upon עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against them. פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃ (pə·nê·hem) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 6440: The face Links Psalm 21:12 NIVPsalm 21:12 NLT Psalm 21:12 ESV Psalm 21:12 NASB Psalm 21:12 KJV Psalm 21:12 BibleApps.com Psalm 21:12 Biblia Paralela Psalm 21:12 Chinese Bible Psalm 21:12 French Bible Psalm 21:12 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 21:12 For you will make them turn their (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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