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Psalms 21:10
10You will remove your enemies' children from the earth. They will no longer have any descendants.
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
8You will use your strong power to take hold of your enemies. You will catch everybody that hates you. 9When you come out to fight against them, you will destroy them like a hot fire. The Lord destroys them, because you are angry with them. You will remove your enemies' children from the earth. They will no longer have any descendants. 11They decided to hurt you. They thought how they would do that. But they could not do anything bad against you. 12No! You shoot your arrows at them, so that they turn round and they run away!
Read all of Psalms 21Psalms 21:10 word by word
פִּ֭רְיָמוֹ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ תְּאַבֵּ֑ד וְ֝זַרְעָ֗ם מִבְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 21:10
- Psalms 37:28The Lord loves justice. He will never leave those who serve him. He will take care of them for ever, but he will remove the children of wicked people.
- Psalms 109:13Remove all the descendants in his family. When his children die, may nobody remember his family any more!
- 1 Kings 13:34This sin caused Jeroboam's family to disappear from the earth. He would no longer have descendants to rule the kingdom.
- Job 18:16He is like a tree whose roots have become dry, and its branches have fallen off.
- Job 20:28A flood will destroy his house and everything that he has. That will happen on the day when God punishes people because he is angry with them.
- Isaiah 14:20They will not bury you with those other kings, because you destroyed your land and you killed your people. Nobody will ever remember the family of a wicked person like you.
- Malachi 4:1‘The great day when I come to judge people will certainly happen. Punishment will come like the great fire of a hot oven. It will destroy all the proud people who do evil things. It will completely destroy them, like a fire that destroys dry grass. Nothing will remain.’ That is what the Lord Almighty says.
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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