Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For You will make them turn their back;
You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.

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

Instead, you will put them to flight
when you aim your bow at their faces.

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 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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

The King's Victory

11 Though they intended evil against You
And devised a plot,
They will not succeed.
12 For You will make them turn their back;
You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
13 Be exalted, O Lord, in Your strength;
We will sing and praise Your power.


Cross References

Psalm 7:12-13

If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;
He has bent His bow and made it ready.

Psalm 18:40

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
And I destroyed those who hated me.

Job 7:20

Have I sinned? What have I done to You,
O watcher of men?
Why have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?

Job 16:12-13

“I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.

Psalm 9:3

When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish before You.

Psalm 18:14

He sent out His arrows, and scattered them,
And lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.

Psalm 44:10

You cause us to turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

Psalm 56:9

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.

Psalm 64:7

But God will shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.

Lamentations 3:12

He bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.

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