Psalms Chapter 21 verse 12 Holy Bible
For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
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Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.
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For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.
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Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
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For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
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For you will make them turn their back, When you aim drawn bows at their face.
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For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back; literally, their neck (comp. Psalm 18:40). The meaning is simply, "Thou shalt put them to flight." When thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. The Authorized Version, by supplying "when" and "thine arrows," expresses what the psalmist has left to the intelligence of the reader. The psalmist says, "Thou shalt put them to flight; thou shalt make ready upon thy strings against the face of them, no doubt meaning that the discharge of arrows would produce the hasty flight, but not saying it.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Therefore.--Literally, for thou shalt put them shoulder (pones eos dorsum, Vulg.). Upon thy strings thou shalt aim against the face of them. Ewald renders: "Shalt strike them back;" but the English version seems to explain rightly To "give the neck of an enemy" (Psalm 18:4) is a similar form of expression.
