Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
- KJV Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
- NKJV Your hand will find all Your enemies; Your right hand will find those who hate You.
- NASB Your hand will find all your enemies; Your right hand will find those who hate you.
- NLT You will capture all your enemies. Your strong right hand will seize all who hate you.
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Quick answer
God's hand will find out and seize all his enemies. No foe of the Lord and his king can escape divine justice.
Overview
The psalm turns to the defeat of God's enemies: his powerful hand will locate and grasp all who hate him. The address shifts toward God's own action against the wicked. This assured judgment on God's foes anticipates the final triumph of the Messiah over all that opposes God's reign.
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- 1 Cor 15:25For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
- Ps 110:1–2A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
- 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.’”
- Ps 72:9May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
- Rev 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.
- Ps 89:22–23No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
- 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.’
- Ps 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
- Heb 10:28–29Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- Amos 9:2–3Though 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.
- Ps 18:1For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.
- 2 Sam 7:1After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,
- Isa 10:10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
- 1 Sam 31:3When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.
- 1 Sam 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.
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