Psalms 21:9
When you appear, you will throw them into a fiery furnace. Because you are angry with them, you will get rid of them; the fire will burn them up.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
8You will enable me/him to capture [MTY] all my/his enemies and all those who hate me/him.
10You will remove their children from this earth; their descendants will all disappear.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains.
Job 6:3they would be heavier than all the sands on the shores of the oceans. That is why I spoke ◄very rashly/without thinking clearly► about the day that I was born.
Psalms 2:12Bow down humbly before his son! If you do not do that, Yahweh will be angry, and he will suddenly get rid of you. Do not forget that he can very quickly show that he is very angry! But he is very pleased with all those who request him to protect them [MET].
Psalms 18:38When I strike them, they are not able to get up again; they lie on the ground, defeated.
Psalms 56:1God, be merciful to me because men have harassed me; all day my enemies pursue me.
Isaiah 26:11Yahweh, it is as though your fist is raised up ready to strike them, but they do not realize that. Show them that you are very eager to help your people. If your enemies would realize that, they would be ashamed; allow your fire to burn them up because they are your enemies.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 21:8-13
The Subject's Hope. 7 For the king trusteth in the Lord , and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. 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. 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. 11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a… Read the whole commentary →