Psalm 21:12 Parallel Translations

They turn their backs and flee because you aim your bow at their faces. (GOD'S WORD®)

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

ASV:

For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.

BBE:

Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

DBY:

For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.

ERV:

For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.

JPS:

For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.

WBS:

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thy arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

WEB:

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

YLT:

For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.

Psalm 21:12 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 7:12 If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

Psalm 7:13 He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

Psalm 18:40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, And I destroyed those who hated me. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

21:12 Therefore shalt thou make them {h} turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.
(h) As a mark to shoot at.

MHC:

21:7-13 The psalmist teaches to look forward with faith, and hope, and prayer upon what God would further do. The success with which God blessed David, was a type of the total overthrow of all Christ's enemies. Those who might have had Christ to rule and save them, but rejected him and fought against him, shall find the remembrance of it a worm that dies not. God makes sinners willing by his grace, receives them to his favour, and delivers them from the wrath to come. May he exalt himself, by his all-powerful grace, in our hearts, destroying all the strong-holds of sin and Satan. How great should be our joy and praise to behold our Brother and Friend upon the throne, and for all the blessings we may expect from him! yet he delights in his exalted state, as enabling him to confer happiness and glory on poor sinners, who are taught to love and trust in him.

CONC:

Aim Arrows Backs Bow Bows Bowstring Bowstrings Butt Cords Drawn Face Faces Flight Makest Preparest Ready Strings Turn Wilt

Aim Arrows Backs Bow Bows Bowstring Bowstrings Cords Drawn Face Faces Flight Makest Preparest Ready Strings Turn Turned Wilt

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