Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
when you aim your bow
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.
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.
Amplified
For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat];
You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.
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
and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.
when you aim your bow
we will sing and praise Your might.
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
God
He has strung
Psalm 18:40
I annihilate those who hate me.
Job 7:20
Watcher of mankind?
Why have You made me Your target,
so that I have become a burden to You?
Job 16:12-13
He seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as His target;
Psalm 9:3
they stumble and perish before You.
Psalm 18:14
He hurled
Psalm 44:10
and those who hate us
have taken plunder for themselves.
Psalm 56:9
This I know: God is for me.
Psalm 64:7
suddenly, they will be wounded.
Lamentations 3:12
and set me as the target for His arrow.