Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you will {turn them to flight}; you will aim [arrows] on your bowstrings at their faces.
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.
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.
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 Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail. 12 For you will {turn them to flight}; you will aim [arrows] on your bowstrings at their faces. 13 Be exalted, O Yahweh, in your strength, and we sing and praise your power.
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has {strung} it.
Psalm 18:40
And you {made my enemies turn their backs}, then I destroyed those [who] hated me.
Job 7:20
[If] I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?
Job 16:12-13
"I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized [me] by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.
Psalm 9:3
When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish because of your presence.
Psalm 18:14
And he shot his arrows and scattered them, and many lightning bolts and routed them.
Psalm 44:10
You have caused us to pull back from [the] enemy, and [so] those who hate us have plundered for themselves.
Psalm 56:9
Then my enemies will turn back {when} I call. This I know because God [is] for me.
Psalm 64:7
But God will shoot them; with an arrow they will suddenly be wounded.
Lamentations 3:12
He has bent his bow and set me as the target for the arrow.