Psalms 21:12
For thou will make them turn their back. Thou will make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
13Be thou exalted, O LORD, in thy strength. We will sing and praise thy power.
Cross References
Job 16:12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.
Psalms 9:3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at thy presence.
Psalms 18:40Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Psalms 56:9Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I call. This I know, that God is for me.
Isaiah 8:10Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing. Speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 21:8-13
The Subject's Hope. 7 For the king trusteth in the Lord , and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. 8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. 11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a… Read the whole commentary →