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Psalms 21:8
8You will use your strong power to take hold of your enemies. You will catch everybody that hates 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 will continue to bless him for ever. Because you are very near to him, he is very happy. 7The king trusts in the Lord. Because of the Most High God's faithful love, the king will never fail. You 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. 10You will remove your enemies' children from the earth. They will no longer have any descendants.
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 sceptre, as if they are clay pots.’
- Psalms 18:1I love you, Lord. You make me strong.
- Psalms 72:9Then people who live in the desert will bend down to respect him. His enemies will fall down with their faces in the dust.
- Psalms 89:22No enemy will win against him. No cruel people will have power to hurt him.
- Psalms 110:1The Lord God said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right side until I win against your enemies. Then you will be able to put your feet on them.’
- 1 Samuel 25:29People may chase after you and try to kill you. But the Lord your God will always keep you safe. He will throw your enemies away like someone who throws a stone from his sling.
- 1 Samuel 31:3The Philistines were fighting the battle all around Saul. Some of their soldiers saw Saul and they shot their arrows at him. The arrows hurt Saul very much and he was nearly dead.
- 2 Samuel 7:1The king was living in his palace. The Lord kept him safe from all his enemies everywhere.
- Amos 9:2They might try to dig deep into the earth to save themselves. But my strong hand will pull them out of there. They might climb up into the sky. But I will pull them down from there.
- Luke 19:14But the people who were living in his country did not like the man. So they sent some of their people to the foreign country with a message. They said, “We do not want this man to rule over us.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:25Christ himself must rule as king until he has won against all his enemies.
- Hebrews 10:28In the old agreement, anyone who refused to obey Moses' rules had to die. If two or three people said that he had done a bad thing, that person had to die. They would not forgive him.
- Revelation 19:15A sharp sword was coming out of his mouth. He will use this sword to attack the people of all the nations of the world. Then he will rule them with strong authority. He will punish them like someone who stamps on grapes in a winepress. That will show God's great anger against them. He is the Almighty God.
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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