Psalms 21:12
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 7:12-13 : 12 If `one' turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it, 13 Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.
- Ps 18:40 : 40 As to mine enemies -- Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me -- I cut them off.
- Ps 44:10 : 10 Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
- Ps 56:9 : 9 Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God `is' for me.
- Ps 64:7 : 7 And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
- Lam 3:12 : 12 He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.
- Ps 9:3 : 3 In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.
- Ps 18:14 : 14 And He sendeth His arrows and scattereth them, And much lightning, and crusheth them.
- Job 7:20 : 20 I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?
- Job 16:12-13 : 12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. 13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
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11For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
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2For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
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7And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
8And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
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7They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
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10Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
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40And Thou girdest me `with' strength for battle, Thou causest my withstanders to bow under me.
41And mine enemies -- Thou givest to me the neck, Those hating me -- and I cut them off.
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12He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.
13He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.
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40As to mine enemies -- Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me -- I cut them off.
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13Be Thou exalted, O Jehovah in, Thy strength, We sing and we praise Thy might!
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3In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.
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6Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,
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3And have smitten thy bow out of thy left hand, Yea, thine arrows out of thy right I cause to fall.
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12If `one' turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
13Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.
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17As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'
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3Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.
4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
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14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.
15Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.
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28The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling.
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27My terror I send before thee, and I have put to death all the people among whom thou comest, and I have given the neck of all thine enemies unto thee.
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17and I have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing you.
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40And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords,
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9Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.
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57And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,
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3Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.
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10let their eyes be darkened -- not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'
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25`Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;
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7`Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee -- smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee.
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4Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.
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7And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back,
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7`And ye have pursued your enemies, and they have fallen before you by the sword;
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15For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle.
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20`And I shoot three of the arrows at the side, sending out for myself at a mark;
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