Psalms 21:12 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.

English ASV

For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.

English Amplified

For You will make them turn their backs; You will aim Your bow [of divine justice] at their faces.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For You will make them turn their backs; You will aim Your bow [of divine justice] at their faces.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Instead, you will put them to flight when you ready your bowstrings to shoot at them.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.

English EASY 2024

No! You shoot your arrows at them, so that they turn round and they run away!

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

You will make them turn and run away when you aim your arrows at their faces.

For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

He will shoot his arrows at them and make them turn and run.

English God's Word - GW 1995

They turn their backs {and flee} because you aim your bow at their faces.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Instead, you will put them to flight when you aim your bow at their faces.

English KJV 1611

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

English LSB

For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Therefore You will put them to flight; You will aim Your bows at their faces.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Though they intend evil against you, devising plots, they will not succeed,

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

You will make them turn their backs and run away when you aim your arrows at them.

English NIV

for you will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow.

English NKJ 1982

Therefore You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces.

English NLT

For they will turn and run when they see your arrows aimed at them.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

They will turn and run at the sight of your judgment-arrows aimed straight at their hearts.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

They will turn and flee when they see your arrows aimed straight at them.

English Tyndale 1537

Therefore shalt thou put them to flight, and with thy strings thou shalt make ready thine arrows against the faces of them.

Psalms 21:12 — Compare Translations