God’s Word Translation
Psalms 21:10
10You will destroy their children from the earth and their offspring from among Adam’s 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
8Your hand will discover all your enemies. Your powerful hand will find all who hate you. 9When you appear, you will make them ⌞burn⌟ like a blazing furnace. The Lord will swallow them up in his anger. Fire will devour them. You will destroy their children from the earth and their offspring from among Adam’s descendants. 11Although they scheme and plan evil against you, they will not succeed. 12They turn their backs ⌞and flee⌟ because you aim your bow at their faces.
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 37:28The Lord loves justice, and he will not abandon his godly ones. They will be kept safe forever, but the descendants of wicked people will be cut off.
- Psalms 109:13Let his descendants be cut off and their family name be wiped out by the next generation.
- 1 Kings 13:34Appointing illegal priests became the sin of Jeroboam’s family so that it had to be destroyed and wiped off the face of the earth.
- Job 18:16His roots dry up under him. His branches wither over him.
- Job 20:28A flood will sweep away his house, a flash flood on the day of his anger.
- Isaiah 14:20You won’t be joined by the kings in the tomb, because you have destroyed your land and killed your people. The descendants of the wicked will never be mentioned again.
- Malachi 4:1“Certainly the day is coming! It will burn like a furnace. All arrogant people and all evildoers will be ⌞like⌟ straw. The day that is coming will burn them up completely,” says the Lord of Armies. “It won’t leave a single root or branch.
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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