Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 21:10
10You will wipe their progeny from the earth and their offspring from the human race.
Psalms 21:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
- New International Version (NIV)You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from mankind.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Their offspring You shall destroy from the earth, And their descendants from among the sons of men.
Context of Psalms 21:10
8Your hand will capture all your enemies; your right hand will seize those who hate you. 9You will make them burn like a fiery furnace when you appear; the Lord will engulf them in his wrath, and fire will devour them. You will wipe their progeny from the earth and their offspring from the human race. 11Though they intend to harm you and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail. 12Instead, you will put them to flight when you ready your bowstrings to shoot at them.
Read all of Psalms 21Psalms 21:10 word by word
פִּ֭רְיָמוֹ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ תְּאַבֵּ֑ד וְ֝זַרְעָ֗ם מִבְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 21:10
- Psalms 37:28For the Lord loves justice and will not abandon his faithful ones. They are kept safe forever, but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.
- Psalms 109:13Let the line of his descendants be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the next generation.
- 1 Kings 13:34This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be cut off and obliterated from the face of the earth.
- Job 18:16His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away.
- Job 20:28The possessions in his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s anger.
- Isaiah 14:20You will not join them in burial, because you destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be mentioned again.
- Malachi 4:1“For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Armies, “not leaving them root or branches.
Commentaries on Psalms 21:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Their fruit shalt thou destroy - Even their posterity shall be cut off, and thus their memorial shall perish.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Their fruit - Their offspring; their children; their posterity, for so the parallelism demands. The “fruit” is that which the tree produces; and hence, the word comes to be applied to children as the production of the parent. See this use of the word in Genesis 30:2; Exodus 21:22; Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 28:11, Deuteronomy 28:18; Psalm 127:3; Hosea 9:16; Micah 6:7. Shalt thou destroy from the earth - Thou shalt utterly destroy them. This is in…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 The psalmist teaches to look forward with faith, and hope, and prayer upon what God would further do. The success with which God blessed David, was a type of the total overthrow of all Christ's enemies. Those who might have had Christ to rule and save them, but rejected him and fought against him, shall find the remembrance of it a worm that dies not. God makes sinners willing by his grace, receives them to his favour, and delivers them from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10descendants … offspring: Evil will end when God destroys all opposition to himself (Psalm 109:13; compare 18:50; 22:30–31; 25:13; 102:28).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. fruit--children (Psa 37:25; Ho 9:16).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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