the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Psalms 21:12
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Instead, you will put them to flightwhen you ready your bowstrings to shoot at them.
For you will make them turn their back, When you aim drawn bows at their face.
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
You will make them turn their backs when you aim your arrows at them.
For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them.
For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat]; You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.
For You will make them turn their back; You will take aim at their faces with Your bowstrings.
For you will make them turn their back, When you aim drawn bows at their face.
Therefore shalt thou put them aparte, and the strings of thy bowe shalt thou make readie against their faces.
For You will make them turn their back;You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
You will make them run away by shooting your arrows at their faces.
for they intended evil against you; but despite their scheme, they won't succeed.
For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.
You will make them turn and run away when you aim your arrows at their faces.
For you shall place a scar on them; and you shall make ready your array against their faces.
For you will turn them to flight; you will aim arrows on your bowstrings at their faces.
for You shall make them turn the back; against their faces You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings.
Therfore shalt thou put the to flight, & with thy stringes thou shalt make ready thine arowes agaynst the faces off them.
For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.
For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail.
Therefore shalt thou make them turne their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrowes vpon thy strings, against the face of them.
Therfore thou wilt put them to flight: [and] direct thine arrowes agaynst their faces.
For thou shalt make them turn their back in thy latter end, thou wilt prepare their face.
For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.
For thou schalt putte hem abac; in thi relifs thou schalt make redi the cheer of hem.
For you will make them turn their back; You will make ready with your bowstrings against their face.
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thy arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.
Therefore You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces.
For they will turn and run when they see your arrows aimed at them.
For You will make them turn their backs when You take up Your bow against them.
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
For thou wilt cause them to turn their back, Upon thy bow-strings, wilt thou make ready against their face.
(20-13) For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Therefore: Psalms 9:3, Psalms 44:10, Psalms 56:9
make: etc. or, set them as a butt, Job 7:20, Job 16:12, Job 16:13, Lamentations 3:12
back: Heb. shoulder
thou shalt: Psalms 7:13, Psalms 18:14, Psalms 64:7
Reciprocal: Numbers 24:8 - pierce Job 6:4 - the arrows Psalms 11:2 - make Psalms 38:2 - thine Psalms 45:5 - Thine Psalms 144:6 - shoot out Ezekiel 28:22 - I will
Cross-References
But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.
But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year."
Then she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
The child grew, and on the day that he was weaned, Abraham gave a great feast.
and the Lord said, "Listen to everything the people say to you. You are not the one they have rejected; I am the one they have rejected as their king.
So then, listen to them, but give them strict warnings and explain how their kings will treat them."
From the beginning I predicted the outcome; long ago I foretold what would happen. I said that my plans would never fail, that I would do everything I intended to do.
God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I promised."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Therefore shall thou make them turn their back,.... Or flee and run away to private places, to hide themselves from the wrath of God and of the Lamb, though to no purpose; or "make them turn [behind thy] back": God will turn his back upon them, and be negligent and careless of them, and not regard them when they cry in their misery and destruction. Some Jewish interpreters e understand it of their being put together on one side, in one corner, and be separate from the people of God; to which sense the Targum inclines, rendering the word for "back" the "shoulder", which sometimes signifies unanimity and union, Zephaniah 3:9; and thus, being all together by themselves, the wrath of God shall be poured forth upon them, and they shall be destroyed at once: so the Christians were, by the providence of God, brought out of Jerusalem before its destruction; and the saints will be called out of Babylon before its fall; and the goats, the wicked, will be separated from the righteous, and set together at Christ's left hand; for they shall not stand in the congregation of the righteous: but the best sense of the words is, "thou shalt set them [for a] butt" or f "heap"; or, as it is in the Hebrew text, a shoulder; a butt to shoot at being so called, because it is earth heaped up like a shoulder; see Job 16:12; and to this agrees what follows:
[when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them; that is, direct the arrows of his wrath and vengeance right against them; see Psalms 7:11.
e Kimchi Ben Melech in loc. f תשיתמו שכם "ponis eos metam", Cocceius "humerum", Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus; "velut tumulum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back - Margin, “Thou shalt set them as a butt.” The word back also is rendered in the margin “shoulder.” The word translated “therefore” means in this placer or, and the rendering “therefore” obscures the sense. The statement in this verse in connection with the previous verse, is, that they would not be able to “perform” or carry out their well-laid schemes, “for” or “because” God would make them turn the back; that is, he had vanquished them. They were going forward in the execution of their purposes, but God would interpose and turn them back, or compel them to “retreat.” The word rendered “back” in this place - שׁכם shekem - means properly “shoulder,” or, more strictly, the “shoulder-blades,” that is, the part where these approach each other behind; and then the upper part of the back. It is not, therefore, incorrectly rendered by the phrase “thou shalt make them turn “the back.”” The expression is equivalent to saying that they would be defeated or foiled in their plans and purposes.
When thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings - Compare the notes at Psalms 11:2. That is, when God should go forth against them, armed as a warrior.
Against the face of them - Against them; or, in their very front. He would meet them as they seemed to be marching on to certain conquest, and would defeat them. It would not be by a side-blow, or by skillful maneuver, or by turning their flank and attacking them in the rear. Truth meets error boldly, face to face, and is not afraid of a fair fight. In every such conflict error will ultimately yield; and whenever the wicked come openly into conflict with God, they must be compelled to turn and flee.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 21:12. Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back — God can in a moment strike the most powerful and numerous army, even in the moment of victory, with panic; and then even the lame, the army which they had nearly routed, shall take the prey, and divide the spoil.
Against the face of them. — Thou shalt cause them to turn their backs and fly, as if a volley of arrows had been discharged in their faces. This seems to be the sense of this difficult verse.
