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Psalm 21:12
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KJ21
Therefore shalt Thou make them turn their back when Thou shalt ready Thine arrows upon Thy strings against the face of them.
ASV
For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
AMP
For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat]; You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.
AMPC
For You will make them turn their backs; You will aim Your bow [of divine justice] at their faces.
BRG
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
CSB
Instead, you will put them to flight when you ready your bowstrings to shoot at them.
CSBA
Instead, you will put them to flight when you ready your bowstrings to shoot at them.
CEB
Because you will make them turn and run when you aim your bow straight at their faces!
CJB
for they intended evil against you; but despite their scheme, they won’t succeed.
CEV
You will make them run away by shooting your arrows at their faces.
DARBY
For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.
DRA
Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.
ERV
You will make them turn and run away when you aim your arrows at their faces.
EASY
No! You shoot your arrows at them, so that they turn round and they run away!
EHV
because you will make them turn and run when you get ready to aim your arrows at them.
ESV
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
ESVUK
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
EXB
You will make them turn their backs when you aim your arrows at ·them [L their faces].
GNV
Therefore shalt thou put them apart, and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against their faces.
GW
They turn their backs ⌞and flee⌟ because you aim your bow at their faces.
GNT
He will shoot his arrows at them and make them turn and run.
HCSB
Instead, you will put them to flight when you aim your bow at their faces.
ICB
You will make them turn their backs when you aim your arrows at them.
ISV
Indeed, you will make them retreat, when you aim your bow at their faces.
JUB
Therefore shalt thou separate them; thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
KJV
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
AKJV
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
LSB
For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
LEB
For you will turn them to flight; you will aim arrows on your bowstrings at their faces.
TLB
They will turn and flee when they see your arrows aimed straight at them.
MSG
With a fistful of enemies in one hand and a fistful of haters in the other, You radiate with such brilliance that they cringe as before a furnace. Now the furnace swallows them whole, the fire eats them alive! You purge the earth of their progeny, you wipe the slate clean. All their evil schemes, the plots they cook up, have fizzled—every one. You sent them packing; they couldn’t face you.
MEV
For You will make them turn their back, when You aim with Your bowstrings against their face.
NOG
They turn their backs and flee because you aim your bow at their faces.
NABRE
Though they intend evil against you, devising plots, they will not succeed,
NASB
For You will make them turn their back; You will take aim at their faces with Your bowstrings.
NASB1995
For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
NCB
They have devised wicked schemes against you, but, plot though they may, they will not succeed.
NCV
You will make them turn their backs when you aim your arrows at them.
NET
For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.
NIRV
You will make them turn their backs and run away when you aim your arrows at them.
NIV
You will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow.
NIVUK
You will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow.
NKJV
Therefore You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces.
NLV
For You will make them turn their backs when You take up Your bow against them.
NLT
For they will turn and run when they see your arrows aimed at them.
NRSVA
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
NRSVACE
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
NRSVCE
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
NRSVUE
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
OJB
Ki (therefore) shalt Thou make them turn their backs, when Thou shalt aim Thine bowstrings at their faces.
RGT
Therefore, You shall make them turn their back. And You shall make ready the strings of Your bow against their faces.
RSV
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
RSVCE
For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
TLV
Though they intended evil against You and devised a plot, they cannot succeed.
VOICE
At the sight of you, they will sound the retreat; your bows, drawn back, will aim directly at their faces.
WEB
For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
WYC
For thou shalt put them aback; in thy remnants thou shalt make ready the cheer of them. (For thou shalt make them turn, and run away, when thou shalt aim thy arrows at them.)
YLT
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
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