Psalm 21:12
New International Version
You will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow.

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

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

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

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.

New King James Version
Therefore You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces.

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

NASB 1995
For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.

NASB 1977
For Thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt aim with Thy bowstrings at their faces.

Legacy Standard Bible
For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.

Amplified Bible
For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat]; You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.

Christian Standard Bible
Instead, you will put them to flight when you ready your bowstrings to shoot at them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Instead, you will put them to flight when you aim your bow at their faces.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Put a scar within them and establish your preparation against their faces.

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

Contemporary English Version
You will make them run away by shooting your arrows at their faces.

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

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

Good News Translation
He will shoot his arrows at them and make them turn and run.

International Standard Version
Indeed, you will make them retreat, when you aim your bow at their faces.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For thou shalt make them turn their back, Thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.

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

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

New American Bible
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bow.

NET Bible
For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them.

New Revised Standard Version
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

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

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.

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Context
After the Battle
11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail. 12For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them. 13Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.…

Cross References
Exodus 23:27
I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.

Psalm 7:12
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

Psalm 7:13
He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

Psalm 18:40
You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.


Treasury of Scripture

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

therefore

Psalm 9:3
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

Psalm 44:10
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

Psalm 56:9
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

make.

Job 7:20
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

Job 16:12,13
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark…

Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

back [heb.

Psalm 7:13
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

Psalm 18:14
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

Psalm 64:7
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

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(12) Therefore.--Literally, for thou shalt put them shoulder (pones eos dorsum, Vulg.). Upon thy strings thou shalt aim against the face of them. Ewald renders: "Shalt strike them back;" but the English version seems to explain rightly To "give the neck of an enemy" (Psalm 18:4) is a similar form of expression.

Verse 12. - Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back; literally, their neck (comp. Psalm 18:40). The meaning is simply, "Thou shalt put them to flight." When thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. The Authorized Version, by supplying "when" and "thine arrows," expresses what the psalmist has left to the intelligence of the reader. The psalmist says, "Thou shalt put them to flight; thou shalt make ready upon thy strings against the face of them, no doubt meaning that the discharge of arrows would produce the hasty flight, but not saying it.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֭י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

You will put them to flight
תְּשִׁיתֵ֣מוֹ (tə·šî·ṯê·mōw)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 7896: To put, set

when Your bow
בְּ֝מֵֽיתָרֶ֗יךָ (bə·mê·ṯā·re·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4340: A cord, the string

is trained
תְּכוֹנֵ֥ן (tə·ḵō·w·nên)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3559: To be erect

upon
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

them.
פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃ (pə·nê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face


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