Psalms 21:12

In 11 translations

BSB

For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

KJV

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.shalt thou…: or, thou shalt set them as a buttback: Heb. shoulder

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

For You make them turn their back, || When You prepare Your strings against their faces.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC20:13

For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

GNV

Therefore shalt thou put them aparte, and the strings of thy bowe shalt thou make readie against their faces.

JPS21:13

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

LXXE20:13

For thou shalt make them turn their back in thy latter end, thou wilt prepare their face.

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WLC21:13

כִּ֭י תְּשִׁיתֵ֣מוֹ שֶׁ֑כֶם בְּ֝מֵֽיתָרֶ֗יךָ תְּכוֹנֵ֥ן עַל־פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃KJV:Ps.21.12

LXX-Br20:13

Ὅτι θήσεις αὐτοὺς νῶτον ἐν τοῖς περιλοίποις σου, ἑτοιμάσεις τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 7:12–13If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
• Psalms 18:40You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
• Psalms 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
• Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
• Job 16:12–13I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target; His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
• Psalms 9:3When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
• Psalms 44:10You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
• Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
• Psalms 56:9Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
• Psalms 18:14He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

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