Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For thou wilt set them the shoulder among thine being left, thou wilt prepare 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.
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.
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 stretched out evil upon thee: they purposed a device, they will not prevail. 12 For thou wilt set them the shoulder among thine being left, thou wilt prepare against their face. 13 Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in thy strength: we will sing and play thy powers upon the harp.
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
If he shall not turn back, he will sharpen his sword; he bent his bow and he will be prepared.
Psalm 18:40
Mine enemies thou gavest the back of the neck to me, and I shall destroy those hating me.
Job 7:20
I sinned; what shall I do to thee, guarding men? wherefore didst thou set me for an assault to thee, and I shall be upon myself for a burden?
Job 16:12-13
I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark:
Psalm 9:3
In the turning away of mine enemies backward, they shall be weak and perish from thy face.
Psalm 18:14
And he will send his arrows and scatter them; and he increased lightnings, and he will discomfit them.
Psalm 44:10
Thou wilt turn us back from the enemy: and those hating us spoiled for themselves.
Psalm 56:9
Then will mine enemies turn back in the day I shall call: this I knew, that God is for me.
Psalm 64:7
God shall be exalted; their blows were the arrow of the simple.
Lamentations 3:12
He bent his bow, he will set me up as a mark for the arrow.