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For you will make them turn their back, When you aim drawn bows at their face.
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God as the Victorious Archer
Commentators emphasize the vivid imagery of God as a divine warrior. He forces His enemies to retreat ("turn their back") and then confronts them directly. Several scholars, including Calvin and Gill, note that God sets them up like a "butt" or target, aiming His arrows straight at them. This illustrates that God's judgment is personal, direct, and inescapable for those who oppose Him.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
(12) Therefore. —Literally, for thou shalt put them shoulder (pones eos dorsum, Vulgate). Upon thy …
Baptist
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
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16th Century
Protestant
For thou wilt set them as a butt. Since the Hebrew word שכם, shekem, which we have translated as a butt, properly signif…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
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…
