Psalms 21 · Verse 8

Psalms 21:8

Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
Psalms 21:8, King James Version

Psalms 21:8 in other translations

BSBYour hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
WEBYour hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
ASVThy hand will find out all thine enemies; Thy right hand will find out those that hate thee.
YLTThy hand cometh to all Thine enemies, Thy right hand doth find Thy haters.
DARBYThy hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
BBEYour hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.
WebsterThy hand shall find out all thy enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

What does Psalms 21:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 Thine 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 21:7-13

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…

Read the full comment on Psalms 21:7-13 →

Psalms 21:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תִּמְצָ֣אtim.Tza'it will findH4672
יָ֭דְךָYa.de.khahand yourH3027
לְכָל\־le.khol<to> allH3605
אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ'o.ye.Vei.khaenemies yourH341
יְ֝מִֽינְךָYe.mi.ne.kharight [hand] yourH3225
תִּמְצָ֥אtim.Tza'it will findH4672
שֹׂנְאֶֽיךָ\׃so.ne.'Ei.kha[those who] hate youH8130

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Cross references for Psalms 21:8

  • Psalms 110:1-2

    A Psalm of David. The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

  • Luke 19:27

    But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:25

    For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

  • Hebrews 10:28-29

    He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

  • Revelation 19:15

    And 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.

  • Psalms 72:9

    They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

  • Psalms 89:22-23

    The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

  • Luke 19:14

    But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

  • Psalms 18:1

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

  • Amos 9:2-3

    Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

  • Psalms 2:9

    Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

  • 1 Samuel 31:3

    And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:9; 18:1; *title
72:9; 89:22,23; 110:1,2; 1Sa 25:29; 31:3; 2Sa 7:1; Am 9:2,3
Lu 19:14,27; 1Co 15:25; Heb 10:28,29; Re 19:15

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Context

  • Psalms 21:7

    For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

  • Psalms 21:8

    Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

  • Psalms 21:9

    Thou 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.

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Psalms 21:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Alcanzará tu mano á todos tus enemigos; tu diestra alcanzará á los que te aborrecen.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car le roi se confie en l’ Éternel, et, par la bonté du Très-haut, il ne sera pas ébranlé.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Deine Hand wird finden alle deine Feinde, finden wird deine Rechte deine Hasser.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Omnes videntes me deriserunt me; locuti sunt labiis, et moverunt caput.