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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BSBPD

“Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thy hand will find out all thine enemies; Thy right hand will find out those that hate thee.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thy hand cometh to all Thine enemies, Thy right hand doth find Thy haters.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 21:8 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
  2. 1 Samuel 31:3When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.
  3. 2 Samuel 7:1After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,
  4. Psalms 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
  5. Psalms 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
  6. Psalms 18:1I love You, O LORD, my strength.
  7. Psalms 72:9May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
  8. Psalms 89:22No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
  9. Psalms 109:20May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.
  10. Psalms 110:1The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
  11. Isaiah 10:10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
  12. Amos 9:2Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
  13. Luke 19:14But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
  14. Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
  15. 1 Corinthians 15:25For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
  16. Hebrews 10:28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  17. Revelation 19:15And 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.

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