Tree of Life Version
Psalms 21:8
8For the king trusts in Adonai, and in the lovingkindness of Elyon he will not be shaken.
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
6His glory is great through Your salvation. Honor and majesty You bestow on him. 7For You bestow on him eternal blessings, gladden him with joy in Your presence. For the king trusts in Adonai, and in the lovingkindness of Elyon he will not be shaken. 9Your hand will find all your enemies. Your right hand will overtake those who hate You. 10You will make them like a fiery furnace at the time of your appearing. In His wrath Adonai will swallow them up and fire will consume them.
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 shall break the nations with an iron scepter. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s jar.”
- Psalms 18:1For the music director: a psalm of David the servant of Adonai. He chanted the words of this song to Adonai on the day Adonai delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
- Psalms 72:9Let desert dwellers bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
- Psalms 89:22With him My hand will be established. Surely My arm will strengthen him.
- Psalms 110:1A psalm of David. Adonai declares to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
- 1 Samuel 25:29If anyone rises to pursue you and seek your life, then let my lord’s life be bound up in the bundle of the living—with Adonai your God. But let the soul of your enemies be hurled away as from the hollow of a sling.
- 1 Samuel 31:3When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers hit him, so he was severely wounded by the archers.
- 2 Samuel 7:1Now it came about when the king lived in his palace and Adonai had granted him rest from all his enemies around him,
- Amos 9:2If they should dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them. If they should go up to heaven, from there will I bring them down.
- Luke 19:14But his citizens detested him and they sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this fellow to reign over us!’
- 1 Corinthians 15:25For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
- Hebrews 10:28Anyone who rejected the Torah of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
- Revelation 19:15From His mouth comes a sharp sword—so that with it He may strike down the nations—and He shall rule them with an iron rod, and He treads the winepress of the furious wrath of Elohei-Tzva’ot.
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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