Psalms 21:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.”
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“For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 21:12 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
- Job 16:12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
- Psalms 7:12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- Psalms 9:3When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
- Psalms 18:14He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
- Psalms 18:40You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
- Psalms 44:10You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
- Psalms 56:9Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
- Psalms 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
- Isaiah 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
- Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
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