Psalms 21:12

For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.

Darby Translation

In The 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.

In Context

11For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.

13Be thou exalted, Jehovah, in thine own strength: we will sing and celebrate thy power.

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Cross References

Job 16:12I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Psalms 9:3When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished at thy presence:

Psalms 18:40And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.

Psalms 56:9Then shall mine enemies return backward in the day when I call: this I know, for God is for me.

Isaiah 8:10Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a 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 →

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