Psalm 21:12
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New International Version (©1984)
for you will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow.

New Living Translation (©2007)
For they will turn and run when they see your arrows aimed at them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They turn their backs [and flee] because you aim your bow at their faces.

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.

American King James Version
Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against the face of them.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

Darby Bible Translation
For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against 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.

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.

Geneva Study Bible

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.

King James Translators' Notes

shalt thou...: or, thou shalt set them as a butt

back: Heb. shoulder

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. turn their back-literally, "place them [as to the] shoulder."

against the face of them-The shooting against their faces would cause them to turn their backs in flight.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.


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)

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


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

therefore Ps 9:3 44:10 56:9

make. or, set them as a butt Job 7:20 16:12,13 La 3:12

back [heb.] shoulder
thou shalt Ps 7:13 18:14 64:7

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