Parallel Verses
Amplified
For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat];
You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.
New American Standard Bible
You will
King James Version
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Holman Bible
when you aim your bow
International Standard Version
Indeed, you will make them retreat, when you aim your bow at their faces.
A Conservative Version
For thou will make them turn their back. Thou will make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
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.
Darby Translation
For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou wilt set them the shoulder among thine being left, thou wilt prepare against their face.
King James 2000
Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows upon your strings toward their face.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you will {turn them to flight}; you will aim [arrows] on your bowstrings at their faces.
Modern King James verseion
For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their faces.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore shalt thou put them to flight, and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them.
NET Bible
For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them.
New Heart English Bible
For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
The Emphasized Bible
For thou wilt cause them to turn their back, Upon thy bow-strings, wilt thou make ready against their face.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 21:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The King's Victory
11
For they planned evil against You;
They devised a [malevolent] plot
And they will not succeed.
For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat];
You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.
Be exalted, Lord, in Your strength;
We will sing and praise Your power.
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword;
He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.
Psalm 18:40
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me [in defeat],
And I silenced and destroyed those who hated me.
Job 7:20
“If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done to You,
O Watcher of mankind?
Why have You set me as a target for You,
So that I am a burden to myself?
Job 16:12-13
“I was [living] at ease, but He crushed me and broke me apart,
And He has seized me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.
Psalm 9:3
When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish before You.
Psalm 18:14
He sent out His arrows and scattered them;
And He sent an abundance of lightning flashes and confused and routed them [in defeat].
Psalm 44:10
You make us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
Psalm 56:9
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.
Psalm 64:7
But God will shoot them with an [unexpected] arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.
Lamentations 3:12
He has bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.