King James Version
Psalms 21:8
8Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
Psalms 21:8 in other versions
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You will capture all your enemies. Your strong right hand will seize all who hate you.
Context of Psalms 21:8
6For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance. 7For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. 9Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. 10Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
Read all of Psalms 21Psalms 21:8 word by word
תִּמְצָ֣א יָ֭דְךָ לְכָל־אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ יְ֝מִֽינְךָ תִּמְצָ֥א שֹׂנְאֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 21:8
- Psalms 2:9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
- Psalms 18:1I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
- Psalms 72:9They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
- Psalms 89:22The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
- Psalms 110:1The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- 1 Samuel 25:29Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
- 1 Samuel 31:3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
- 2 Samuel 7:1And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
- Amos 9:2Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
- Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
- 1 Corinthians 15:25For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
- Hebrews 10:28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
- Revelation 19:15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of 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
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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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