Psalms 21 · Verse 9

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.
Psalms 21:9, King James Version

Psalms 21:9 in other translations

BSBYou will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.
WEBYou will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
ASVThou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.
YLTThou makest them as a furnace of fire, At the time of Thy presence. Jehovah in His anger doth swallow them, And fire doth devour them.
DARBYThou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thy presence; Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger, and the fire shall devour them:
BBEYou will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.
WebsterThou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thy anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

What does Psalms 21:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. The king is only God's agent. anger--literally, "face," as appearing against them. as a fiery oven--as in it.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven - By thy wrath they shall be burnt up, and they shall be the means of consuming others. One class of sinners shall, in God's judgments, be the means of destroying another class; and at last themselves shall be destroyed.

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 21:9 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.

תְּשִׁיתֵ֤מוֹ\׀te.shi.Te.movyou will make themH7896
כְּתַנּ֥וּרke.ta.Nurlike a furnace ofH8574
אֵשׁ֮'eshfireH784
לְעֵ֪תle.'Etto [the] time ofH6256
פָּ֫נֶ֥יךָpa.Nei.khapresence yourH6440
יְ֭הוָהYah.wehYahwehH3068
בְּאַפּ֣וֹbe.'a.Poin anger hisH639
יְבַלְּעֵ֑םye.va.le.'Emhe will swallow up themH1104
וְֽתֹאכְלֵ֥םve.to.khe.Lemand it will consume themH398
אֵֽשׁ\׃'EshfireH784

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Cross references for Psalms 21:9

  • Malachi 4:1

    For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • 2 Thessalonians 1:8

    In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Psalms 50:3

    Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

  • Psalms 18:8

    There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

  • Lamentations 2:2

    The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

  • Nahum 1:6

    Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

  • Matthew 3:12

    Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

  • Isaiah 26:11

    Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

  • Deuteronomy 32:22

    For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

  • Genesis 19:28

    And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

  • Daniel 3:20-22

    And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego.

  • Psalms 2:5

    Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou.
Ge 19:28; Da 3:20-22; Mal 4:1; Mt 13:42,50; 25:41,46; 2Th 1:8
Re 20:14
the Lord.
56:1,2; 106:17; Job 6:3; La 2:2
in his.
2:5,12; Mt 22:7; 1Th 2:16; Re 6:16,17; 19:15
the fire.
18:8; De 32:22; Isa 26:11; Na 1:6; Mt 3:10,12

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Context

  • 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.

  • Psalms 21:10

    Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

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Psalms 21:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Ponerlos has como horno de fuego en el tiempo de tu ira: Jehová los deshará en su furor, y fuego los consumirá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ta main trouvera tous tes ennemis, ta droite trouvera ceux qui te haïssent.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wie einen Feuerofen wirst du sie machen zur Zeit deiner Gegenwart; Jehova wird sie verschlingen in seinem Zorn, und Feuer wird sie verzehren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Speravit in Domino, eripiat eum: salvum faciat eum, quoniam vult eum.