Psalms 21:8,9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Thy hand shall find out all thine enemies When they seek to hide themselves, or flee away from thee, thy hand shall discover, overtake, and destroy them. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven Hebrew, תשׁיתמו כתנור אשׁ, teshithemo chetannur esh, thou shalt put them, as it were, into an oven of fire. The Lord shall swallow them up Destroy them. Thus, Psalms 2:9, Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron, &c., which prediction, and those contained in these verses, particularly relate to the unbelieving Jews. Compare Malachi 4:1; Psalms 2:2-4; Psalms 109:13-15.

Psalms 21:8-9

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

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.