Psalms 21:12

For thou wilt cause them to turn their back, Upon thy bow-strings, wilt thou make ready against their face.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 have held out, against thee, a wicked thing, They have devised a scheme they cannot accomplish.

13Be exalted, O Yahweh, in thy strength! With song and with string will we sound forth thy power.

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Cross References

Job 16:12At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark:

Psalms 9:3When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished from before thee;

Psalms 18:40As for my foes, thou didst give me their neck, and, as for them who hated me, I destroyed them.

Psalms 56:9Then, shall my foes turn back, in the day I cry, This, I know, for God is mine!

Isaiah 8:10Determine a plan,—and it shall be frustrated,—Speak a word, and it shall not stand, 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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