Psalms 21:12

Psalms 21:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
• New International Version (NIV)You will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces.

Context of Psalms 21:12

10Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. 11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. 13Be thou exalted, Yhwh, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

Psalms 21:12 word by word

כִּ֭י תְּשִׁיתֵ֣מוֹ שֶׁ֑כֶם בְּ֝מֵֽיתָרֶ֗יךָ תְּכוֹנֵ֥ן עַל־פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Therefore shalt thou makeשִׁיתshîyth · to set: makeH7896
• them turn their backשְׁכֶםshekem · shoulderH7926
• thou shalt make readyכּוּןkûn · to establish: prepareH3559
• upon thy stringsמֵיתָרmêythâr · cordH4340
• against the faceפָּנֶהpânîym · faceH6440

Cross-references for Psalms 21:12

• Psalms 9:3When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
• Psalms 44:10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
• Psalms 56:9When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
• Job 7:20I 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 16:12I 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 3:12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
• Psalms 7:13He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
• Psalms 18:14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
• Psalms 64:7But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

Commentaries on Psalms 21:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back - God can in a moment strike the most powerful and numerous army, even in the moment of victory, with panic; and then even the lame, the army which they had nearly routed, shall take the prey, and divide the spoil. Against the face of them - Thou shalt cause them to turn their backs and fly, as if a volley of arrows had been discharged in their faces. This seems to be the sense of this difficult verse.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back - Margin, “Thou shalt set them as a butt.” The word back also is rendered in the margin “shoulder.” The word translated “therefore” means in this placer or, and the rendering “therefore” obscures the sense. The statement in this verse in connection with the previous verse, is, that they would not be able to “perform” or carry out their well-laid schemes, “for” or “because” God would make them turn the back…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-12As long as even a single enemy opposed the king’s authority, God’s kingdom was not fully present. This prayer requests victory over all evil in the world.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. 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.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Psalms 21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary