Psalms 21:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:12-13 : 12 If a person does not repent, God will wield his sword. He has prepared to shoot his bow. 13 He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.
  • Ps 18:40 : 40 You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.
  • Ps 44:10 : 10 You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.
  • Ps 56:9 : 9 My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.
  • Ps 64:7 : 7 But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.
  • Ps 9:3 : 3 When my enemies turn back, they trip and are defeated before you.
  • Ps 18:14 : 14 He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.
  • Job 7:20 : 20 If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?
  • Job 16:12-13 : 12 I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target; 13 his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 11Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

  • 2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Ps 64:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.

    8Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,

  • 7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

  • 10You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.

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    40You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.

    41You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

  • 5Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

  • Lam 3:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.

    13ה(He) He shot his arrows into my heart.

  • 40You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

  • 13Rise up, O LORD, in strength! We will sing and praise your power!

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    3When my enemies turn back, they trip and are defeated before you.

  • 6Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!

  • 3I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.

  • Ps 7:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12If a person does not repent, God will wield his sword. He has prepared to shoot his bow.

    13He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.

  • 17I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them.”

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,

    4in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

    15Their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  • 28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

  • 27“I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

  • 17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

  • 40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

  • 9The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they retreated in the day of battle.

  • 57They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

  • 3How long will you threaten a man? All of you are murderers, as dangerous as a leaning wall or an unstable fence.

  • 10let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”

  • 25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • 7The LORD will cause your enemies who attack you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction but flee from you in seven different directions.

  • 14May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

  • 16They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.

  • Jer 18:21-23
    3 verses
    71%

    21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

    22Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

    23But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!

  • 23I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

  • 3Do not give her archers time to string their bows or to put on their coats of armor. Do not spare any of her young men. Completely destroy her whole army.

  • 43You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle.

  • 4Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.

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    7The countries are assembled all around you; take once more your rightful place over them!

  • 11The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.

  • 7You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.

  • 15For they flee from the swords– from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle.

  • 16Cut sharply on the right! Swing to the left, wherever your edge is appointed to strike.

  • 20I will shoot three arrows near it, as though I were shooting at a target.

  • 14“Take up your battle positions all around Babylon, all you soldiers who are armed with bows. Shoot all your arrows at her! Do not hold any back! For she has sinned against the LORD.