Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back - Margin, “You will set them as a butt.” The word back also is rendered in the margi…

(12) Therefore. —Literally, for thou shalt put them shoulder (pones eos dorsum, Vulgate). Upon thy …

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

For thou wilt set them as a butt. Since the Hebrew word שכם, shekem, which we have translated as a butt, properly signif…

Therefore shall you make them turn their back
Or flee and run away to private places, to hide themselves from the wr…

The psalmist teaches us to look forward with faith, hope, and prayer to what God would do further. The success with which God blessed David was a t…

1. In the preceding psalm, a petition was made for the king’s exaltation; here, it is as though the psalmist, having been heard, now announc…