Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings against 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you will {turn them to flight}; you will aim [arrows] on your bowstrings at 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 You; they imagined a wicked thing; they are not able to prevail. 12 For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their faces. 13 Be exalted, O Jehovah, in Your strength; we will sing, and praise Your power.
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
If he does not turn, He will whet His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.
Psalm 18:40
You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me.
Job 7:20
I have sinned. What shall I do to You, O Watcher of men? Why have You set me as a target for You, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 16:12-13
I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.
Psalm 9:3
When my enemies have turned back, they shall fall and perish before You.
Psalm 18:14
Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and crushed them.
Psalm 44:10
You make us turn back from the adversary; and our haters plunder for themselves.
Psalm 56:9
When I cry, then my enemies will be turned back. This I know, for God is with me.
Psalm 64:7
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly they shall be wounded.
Lamentations 3:12
He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.