Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
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.
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 For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform. 12 For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face. 13 Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in thy strength: So will we sing and praise thy power.
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Psalm 18:40
Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.
Job 7:20
If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
Job 16:12-13
I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
Psalm 9:3
When mine enemies turn back, They stumble and perish at thy presence.
Psalm 18:14
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
Psalm 44:10
Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
Psalm 56:9
Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.
Psalm 64:7
But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.