Psalms 21:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

Turn their back - literally, 'thou shalt set them for shoulder;' i:e., make them to turn their back. The Hebrew х shekem (H7926)] means, 'the back part of both shoulder-blades'-the back (cf. note, Psalms 18:40).

Therefore - rather, 'For.' (When) ... (thine arrows). So the Hebrew ellipsis is rightly supplied, as appears from Psalms 11:2.

Psalms 21:12

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