Psalms 21:12
For You make them turn their back, || When You prepare Your strings against their faces.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11For they stretched out evil against You, || They devised a wicked scheme, they do not prevail,
13Be exalted, O YHWH, in Your strength, || We sing and we praise Your might!
Cross References
Job 16:12I have been at ease, and He breaks me, || And He has laid hold on my neck, || And He breaks me in pieces, || And He raises me to Him for a mark.
Psalms 9:3In my enemies turning backward, || They stumble and perish from Your face.
Psalms 18:40As for my enemies—You have given to me the neck, || As for those hating me—I cut them off.
Psalms 56:9Then turn back my enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God [is] for me.
Isaiah 8:10Take counsel, and it is broken, || Speak a word, and it does not stand, || Because of Immanuel!”
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 →