21:12 For you make them retreat 1
when you shoot your arrows at them. 2
21:13 Rise up, O Lord, in strength! 3
We will sing and praise 4 your power!
1 tn Heb “you make them a shoulder,” i.e., “you make them turn and run, showing the back of their neck and shoulders.”
2 tn Heb “with your bowstrings you fix against their faces,” i.e., “you fix your arrows on the bowstrings to shoot at them.”
3 tn Heb “in your strength,” but English idiom does not require the pronoun.
sn The psalm concludes with a petition to the Lord, asking him to continue to intervene in strength for the king and nation.
4 tn Heb “sing praise.”