Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 21:8
8Your hand will capture all your enemies; your right hand will seize those who hate you.
Psalms 21:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
- New International Version (NIV)Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies; your right hand will seize your foes.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your hand will find all Your enemies; Your right hand will find those who hate You.
Context of Psalms 21:8
6You give him blessings forever; you cheer him with joy in your presence. 7For the king relies on the Lord; through the faithful love of the Most High he is not shaken. Your 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. 10You will wipe their progeny from the earth and their offspring from the human race.
Read all of Psalms 21Psalms 21:8 word by word
תִּמְצָ֣א יָ֭דְךָ לְכָל־אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ יְ֝מִֽינְךָ תִּמְצָ֥א שֹׂנְאֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 21:8
- Psalms 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; you will shatter them like pottery.”
- Psalms 18:1I love you, Lord, my strength.
- Psalms 72:9May desert tribes kneel before him and his enemies lick the dust.
- Psalms 89:22The enemy will not oppress him; the wicked will not afflict him.
- Psalms 110:1This is the declaration of the Lord to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.”
- 1 Samuel 25:29“Someone is pursuing you and intends to take your life. My lord’s life is tucked safely in the place where the Lord your God protects the living, but he is flinging away your enemies’ lives like stones from a sling.
- 1 Samuel 31:3When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers found him and severely wounded him.
- 2 Samuel 7:1When the king had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,
- Amos 9:2If they dig down to Sheol, from there my hand will take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
- Luke 19:14“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us.’
- 1 Corinthians 15:25For he must reign until he puts all his enemies under his feet.
- Hebrews 10:28Anyone who disregarded the law of Moses died without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- Revelation 19:15A sharp sword came from his mouth, so that he might strike the nations with it. He will rule them with an iron rod. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty.
Commentaries on Psalms 21:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Thine hand shall find out - Thy uncontrollable power shall find out all thine enemies, wheresoever hidden or howsoever secret. God knows the secret sinner, and where the workers of iniquity hide themselves.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Thine hand shall find out - That is, Thou wilt find out - the hand being that by which we execute our purposes. This verse commences a new division of the psalm (see the introduction) - in which the psalmist looks forward to the complete and final triumph of God over “all” his enemies. He looks to this in connection with what God had done for him. He infers that he who had enabled him to achieve such signal conquests over his own foes and the foes of God…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. 8-12As long as even a single enemy opposed the king’s authority, God’s kingdom was not fully present. This prayer requests victory over all evil in the world.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. The address is now made to the king. hand--denotes power, and right hand--a more active and efficient degree of its exercise. find out--reach, lay hold of, indicating success in pursuit of his enemies.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
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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