Psalms
King James Version (KJV)
Psalms 21:12
“Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.”
King James Version (KJV)
Psalms 21:12 Context
9Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. 10Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. 11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. 12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. 13Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
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Other Translations
Therefore shalt thou make them turne their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrowes vpon thy strings, against the face of them.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.
- Basic English Bible
For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.
- Darby Bible
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thy arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
- Webster's Bible
For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
- World English Bible
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
- Youngs Literal Bible
(21:13) For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.
- Basic English Bible
For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.
- Darby Bible
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thy arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
- Webster's Bible
For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
- World English Bible
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
- Youngs Literal Bible
(21:13) For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Bible commentary
Wesley's Notes for Psalms 21:12
21:10 Fruit - Their children. God will take away both root and branch, the parents and all that wicked race.
21:11 Thee - Against God, not directly, but by consequence, because it was against David, whom God had anointed, and against the Lord's people, whose injuries God takes as done to himself.
21:13 Exalted - By thy own power, or by the manifestation thereof.