Psalms 21:12
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
13Be Thou exalted, O Jehovah in, Thy strength, We sing and we praise Thy might!
Cross References
Job 16:12At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
Psalms 9:3In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.
Psalms 18:40As to mine enemies — Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me — I cut them off.
Psalms 56:9Then turn back do mine 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 doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'
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 →