Psalms 21:12

(21:13) For thou wilt make them turn their back; upon thy bow-strings thou wilt make ready [thy arrows] against their face.

Leeser Tanakh

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

11(21:12) For they directed against thee evil: they devised a mischievous purpose, which they were not able to perform.

13(21:14) Exalt thyself, O Lord, in thy strength; [and] we will sing and praise thy power.

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Cross References

Job 16:12I was at ease, but he hath crushed me; he hath also grasped me by the neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up unto himself as a mark;

Psalms 9:3(9:4) When my enemies are turned backward, [when] they fall and perish at thy presence.

Psalms 18:40(18:41) And my enemies thou causest to turn their back to me; and those that hate me,—that I may destroy them.

Psalms 56:9(56:10) Then shall my enemies retire backward on the day when I call [on thee]: this I know—that God is for me.

Isaiah 8:10Take counsel together, yet shall it come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand firm; for with us is God.

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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