Text -- Psalms 21:12-13 (NET)

21:12 For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them. 21:13 Rise up, O Lord, in strength! We will sing and praise your power!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 21:12

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.”

NET Notes: Psa 21:13

¹ 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.

² tn Heb “sing praise.”