Psalms 21:8
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Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
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As the foregoing psalm was a prayer for the king that God would protect and prosper him, so this is a thanksgiving for the success God had blessed him with. Those whom we have prayed for we ought to give thanks for, and particularly for kings, in whose prosperity we share. They are here taught, I. To congratulate him on his victories, and the honour he had achieved (Psa 21:1-6). II. To confide in the power of God for the completing of the ruin of the enemies of his kingdom (Psa 21:7-13). In this there is an eye to Messiah the Prince, and the glory of his kingdom; for to him divers passages in this psalm are more applicable than to David himself. To the chief musician. A psalm of David.
Open source ↗21:8-12 As 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.
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For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
I love You, O LORD, my strength.
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.
After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,
As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,