Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest 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 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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 21:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The King's Victory
11 For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not, 12 For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces. 13 Be Thou exalted, O Jehovah in, Thy strength, We sing and we praise Thy might!
Cross References
Psalm 7:12-13
If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
Psalm 18:40
As to mine enemies -- Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me -- I cut them off.
Job 7:20
I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?
Job 16:12-13
At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
Psalm 9:3
In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.
Psalm 18:14
And He sendeth His arrows and scattereth them, And much lightning, and crusheth them.
Psalm 44:10
Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
Psalm 56:9
Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God is for me.
Psalm 64:7
And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
Lamentations 3:12
He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.