Translations
Modern
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
Traditional
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Literal
For You set them to the shoulder; You prepare Your bowstrings against their faces.
Latin
Quoniam pones eos dorsum; in reliquiis tuis præparabis vultum eorum.
Original
Hebrew
English
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
Notes
As long as even a single enemy opposed the king’s authority, God’s kingdom was not fully present. This prayer requests victory over all evil in the world.
God’s people thank him for giving victory to the king.
This series of psalms shows a journey from confidence and commitment (Psalms 20–21), through anguish and abandonment (Psalm 22), and finally to comfort, insight, and hope (Psalms 23–24).
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