Psalms 21:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:12-13 : 12 If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready. 13 He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.
  • Ps 18:40 : 40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.
  • Ps 44:10 : 10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.
  • Ps 56:9 : 9 When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me.
  • Ps 64:7 : 7 But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
  • Ps 9:3 : 3 When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.
  • Ps 18:14 : 14 He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.
  • Job 7:20 : 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?
  • Job 16:12-13 : 12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 21:11
    81%

    11For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

  • Ps 11:2
    78%

    2See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

  • Ps 64:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

    8The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

  • Ps 58:7
    76%

    7Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

  • Ps 44:10
    76%

    10Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

  • 2 Sam 22:40-41
    2 verses
    75%

    40For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

    41By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 45:5
    75%

    5Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

  • Lam 3:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

    13He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • Ps 18:40
    74%

    40By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 21:13
    74%

    13Be lifted up, O Lord, in your strength; so will we make songs in praise of your power.

  • Ps 9:3
    74%

    3When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.

  • Ps 144:6
    74%

    6With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.

  • Ezek 39:3
    73%

    3And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.

  • Ps 7:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

    13He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

  • Jer 18:17
    73%

    17I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

    4So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

    15But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  • Exod 23:27
    72%

    27I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

  • Lev 26:17
    72%

    17And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

  • Ezek 16:40
    72%

    40And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • Ps 78:9
    72%

    9The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

  • Ps 78:57
    72%

    57Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

  • Ps 62:3
    72%

    3How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

  • Rom 11:10
    71%

    10Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

  • Deut 28:25
    71%

    25The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Deut 28:7
    71%

    7By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome before you: they will come out against you one way, and will go in flight from you seven ways.

  • Ps 40:14
    71%

    14Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

  • Hos 7:16
    71%

    16They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.

  • Jer 18:21-23
    3 verses
    71%

    21For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

    22Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

    23But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • Deut 32:23
    71%

    23I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

  • Jer 51:3
    71%

    3Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.

  • Ps 89:43
    71%

    43His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.

  • Ps 120:4
    71%

    4Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.

  • Ps 7:7
    71%

    7The meeting of the nations will be round you; take your seat, then, over them, on high.

  • Hab 3:11
    70%

    11At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

  • Lev 26:7
    70%

    7And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.

  • Isa 21:15
    70%

    15For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

  • Ezek 21:16
    70%

    16Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.

  • 1 Sam 20:20
    70%

    20And on the third day I will send arrows from my bow against its side as if at a mark.

  • Jer 50:14
    70%

    14Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.