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The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and his fire will consume them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/psalms/21.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />You will throw them in a flaming furnace when you appear. The LORD will consume them in his anger; fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/psalms/21.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/psalms/21.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/psalms/21.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/psalms/21.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your anger; The LORD shall swallow them up in His wrath, And the fire shall devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/21.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger; The LORD will swallow them up in His wrath, And fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/psalms/21.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger; The LORD will swallow them up in His wrath, And fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/psalms/21.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger; The LORD will swallow them up in His wrath, And fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/psalms/21.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger; Yahweh will swallow them up in His wrath, And fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/psalms/21.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />You will make them as [if in] a blazing oven in the time of your anger; The LORD will swallow them up in His wrath, And the fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/psalms/21.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You will make them burn like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD will engulf them in his wrath, and fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/21.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You will make them burn like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD will engulf them in His wrath, and fire will devour them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/21.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/psalms/21.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />They will be destroyed by fire once you are here, and because of your anger, flames will swallow them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/21.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/psalms/21.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />When you appear, you will make them [burn]like a blazing furnace. The LORD will swallow them up in his anger. Fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/psalms/21.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />He will destroy them like a blazing fire when he appears. The LORD will devour them in his anger, and fire will consume them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/psalms/21.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />When you appear, you will set them ablaze like a fire furnace. In his wrath, the LORD will consume them, and the fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/psalms/21.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/psalms/21.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/psalms/21.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/21.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thy anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/21.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/psalms/21.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />You make them as a furnace of fire, "" At the time of Your presence. YHWH swallows them in His anger, "" And fire devours them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/21.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Thou makest them as a furnace of fire, At the time of Thy presence. Jehovah in His anger doth swallow them, And fire doth devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/psalms/21.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Thou wilt set them as a furnace of fire for the time of thy face: Jehovah in his anger will swallow them down, and the fire shall devour them.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/21.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/psalms/21.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 20:10>You will make them like an oven of fire, in the time of your presence. The Lord will stir them up with his wrath, and fire will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/21.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />At the time of your coming you will make them a fiery furnace. Then the LORD in his anger will consume them, devour them with fire. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/21.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You will make them like a fiery furnace when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/psalms/21.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your wrath; the LORD shall consume them in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/psalms/21.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />You will make them like a furnace of fire for the time of wrath.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/psalms/21.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger; The LORD shall swallow them up in His wrath, And the fire shall devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/psalms/21.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven at the time of thy presence: the Lord shall trouble them in his anger, and fire shall devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/21-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nFaD2oDhKPc?start=2110" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/psalms/21.htm">After the Battle</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You. <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7896.htm" title="7896: tə·šî·ṯê·mōw (V-Qal-Imperf-2ms:: 3mp) -- To put, set. A primitive root; to place.">You will place them</a> <a href="/hebrew/784.htm" title="784: ’êš (N-cs) -- A fire. A primitive word; fire.">in a fiery</a> <a href="/hebrew/8574.htm" title="8574: kə·ṯan·nūr (Prep-k:: N-csc) -- (portable) stove, firepot. From niyr; a fire-pot.">furnace</a> <a href="/hebrew/6256.htm" title="6256: lə·‘êṯ (Prep-l:: N-csc) -- Time. From ad; time, especially now, when, etc.">at the time</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: pā·ne·ḵā (N-cpc:: 2ms) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">of Your appearing.</a> <a href="/hebrew/639.htm" title="639: bə·’ap·pōw (Prep-b:: N-msc:: 3ms) -- A nostril, nose, face, anger. From 'anaph; properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also ire.">In His wrath</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/1104.htm" title="1104: yə·ḇal·lə·‘êm (V-Piel-Imperf-3ms:: 3mp) -- To swallow down, swallow up, engulf. A primitive root; to make away with; generally, to destroy.">will engulf them,</a> <a href="/hebrew/784.htm" title="784: ’êš (N-cs) -- A fire. A primitive word; fire.">and the fire</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: wə·ṯō·ḵə·lêm (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjImperf-3fs:: 3mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">will consume them.</a> </span><span class="reftext">10</span>You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/19-20.htm">Revelation 19:20</a></span><br />But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/4-1.htm">Malachi 4:1</a></span><br />“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_thessalonians/1-7.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:7-9</a></span><br />and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels / in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. / They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-41.htm">Matthew 13:41-42</a></span><br />The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness. / And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/66-15.htm">Isaiah 66:15-16</a></span><br />For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire. / For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nahum/1-6.htm">Nahum 1:6</a></span><br />Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_peter/3-7.htm">2 Peter 3:7</a></span><br />And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/25-41.htm">Matthew 25:41</a></span><br />Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/30-27.htm">Isaiah 30:27-30</a></span><br />Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire. / His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray. / You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/22-20.htm">Ezekiel 22:20-21</a></span><br />Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you. / Yes, I will gather you together and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted within the city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/20-9.htm">Revelation 20:9</a></span><br />And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/7-10.htm">Daniel 7:10</a></span><br />A river of fire was flowing, coming out from His presence. Thousands upon thousands attended Him, and myriads upon myriads stood before Him. The court was convened, and the books were opened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/1-18.htm">Zephaniah 1:18</a></span><br />Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-4.htm">Jeremiah 4:4</a></span><br />Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/10-27.htm">Hebrews 10:27</a></span><br />but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.</p><p class="hdg">Thou</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/19-28.htm">Genesis 19:28</a></b></br> And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/daniel/3-20.htm">Daniel 3:20-22</a></b></br> And he commanded the most mighty men that <i>were</i> in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, <i>and</i> to cast <i>them</i> into the burning fiery furnace… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/malachi/4-1.htm">Malachi 4:1</a></b></br> For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.</p><p class="hdg">the Lord</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/56-1.htm">Psalm 56:1,2</a></b></br> To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/106-17.htm">Psalm 106:17</a></b></br> The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/6-3.htm">Job 6:3</a></b></br> For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.</p><p class="hdg">in his</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/2-5.htm">Psalm 2:5,12</a></b></br> Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/22-7.htm">Matthew 22:7</a></b></br> But when the king heard <i>thereof</i>, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_thessalonians/2-16.htm">1 Thessalonians 2:16</a></b></br> Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.</p><p class="hdg">the fire</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/18-8.htm">Psalm 18:8</a></b></br> There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/32-22.htm">Deuteronomy 32:22</a></b></br> For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/26-11.htm">Isaiah 26:11</a></b></br> LORD, <i>when</i> thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: <i>but</i> they shall see, and be ashamed for <i>their</i> envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/18-15.htm">Anger</a> <a href="/job/19-18.htm">Appear</a> <a href="/exodus/16-10.htm">Appearing</a> <a href="/psalms/11-6.htm">Blazing</a> <a href="/psalms/20-3.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/job/31-16.htm">Consume</a> <a href="/psalms/18-8.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/psalms/19-9.htm">End</a> <a href="/psalms/11-6.htm">Fiery</a> <a href="/psalms/18-14.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/psalms/7-13.htm">Flaming</a> <a href="/psalms/12-6.htm">Furnace</a> <a href="/psalms/21-6.htm">Makest</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-26.htm">Oven</a> <a href="/psalms/21-6.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/job/20-18.htm">Swallow</a> <a href="/psalms/18-44.htm">Time</a> <a href="/psalms/18-28.htm">Wilt</a> <a href="/psalms/18-15.htm">Wrath</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/27-9.htm">Anger</a> <a href="/psalms/42-2.htm">Appear</a> <a href="/zechariah/5-5.htm">Appearing</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-16.htm">Blazing</a> <a href="/psalms/37-20.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/psalms/37-20.htm">Consume</a> <a href="/psalms/27-2.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/psalms/27-2.htm">End</a> <a href="/psalms/29-7.htm">Fiery</a> <a href="/psalms/26-2.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/psalms/76-3.htm">Flaming</a> <a href="/psalms/102-3.htm">Furnace</a> <a href="/psalms/21-12.htm">Makest</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-4.htm">Oven</a> <a href="/psalms/23-5.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/psalms/55-9.htm">Swallow</a> <a href="/psalms/22-2.htm">Time</a> <a href="/psalms/21-10.htm">Wilt</a> <a href="/psalms/27-9.htm">Wrath</a><div class="vheading2">Psalm 21</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/21-1.htm">A thanksgiving for victory</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/21-7.htm">with confidence of further success</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The "fiery furnace" is reminiscent of the furnace in <a href="/daniel/3.htm">Daniel 3</a>, where Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown but not consumed, symbolizing God's protection over the faithful and His power over judgment. The "time of Your appearing" suggests an eschatological event, pointing to the Day of the Lord, a time of reckoning and fulfillment of divine justice. This aligns with New Testament themes in <a href="/2_thessalonians/1-7.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:7-8</a>, where Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire, dealing out retribution. The furnace symbolizes both judgment and purification, a common biblical motif where fire refines and purifies (<a href="/malachi/3-2.htm">Malachi 3:2-3</a>).<p><b>In His wrath the LORD will engulf them,</b><br>The wrath of the LORD is a recurring theme throughout the Bible, representing His righteous anger against sin and injustice. This phrase underscores the seriousness of divine judgment. The engulfing nature of God's wrath can be seen in historical events such as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19) and the plagues of Egypt (Exodus 7-12), where God's power and judgment were visibly demonstrated. Theologically, this reflects God's holiness and justice, which cannot tolerate sin. It also serves as a warning to the unrepentant, emphasizing the need for repentance and faithfulness.<p><b>and the fire will consume them.</b><br>Fire as a consuming force is a powerful biblical image of judgment. In the Old Testament, fire often signifies God's presence and judgment, as seen in the burning bush (Exodus 3) and Mount Sinai (<a href="/exodus/19-18.htm">Exodus 19:18</a>). The consuming fire represents total destruction of the wicked, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/66-15.htm">Isaiah 66:15-16</a>, where the LORD comes with fire to execute judgment. This phrase also connects to the New Testament, where eternal fire is a metaphor for final judgment (<a href="/matthew/25-41.htm">Matthew 25:41</a>). The consuming nature of fire highlights the completeness of God's judgment, leaving nothing unaddressed. It serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of rejecting God's authority and grace.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD</a></b><br>The central figure in this verse, representing God's power and justice. The LORD is depicted as a righteous judge who will execute judgment on His enemies.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/e/enemies_of_god.htm">Enemies of God</a></b><br>Those who oppose God and His anointed king. They are the recipients of God's wrath and judgment.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/f/fiery_furnace.htm">Fiery Furnace</a></b><br>A metaphorical place of judgment and destruction, symbolizing the intensity and completeness of God's wrath against His enemies.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/time_of_your_appearing.htm">Time of Your Appearing</a></b><br>Refers to a future time when God will manifest His presence and execute judgment, often associated with eschatological events.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/k/king_david.htm">King David</a></b><br>Traditionally attributed as the author of this Psalm, he speaks of God's deliverance and judgment, reflecting on God's protection over him as the anointed king.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_righteous_judgment.htm">God's Righteous Judgment</a></b><br>God's judgment is just and righteous. He will ultimately deal with all evil and opposition to His kingdom. Believers can trust in God's perfect justice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_divine_wrath.htm">The Reality of Divine Wrath</a></b><br>The wrath of God is a real and serious aspect of His character. It serves as a warning to those who oppose Him and a comfort to those who are oppressed by evil.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_assurance_of_god's_protection.htm">The Assurance of God's Protection</a></b><br>For those who are in Christ, there is assurance of protection from God's wrath. Believers are called to live in the light of this truth, seeking refuge in Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/e/eschatological_hope.htm">Eschatological Hope</a></b><br>The "time of Your appearing" points to the hope of Christ's return. Believers are encouraged to live with an eternal perspective, anticipating the fulfillment of God's promises.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a></b><br>The imagery of the fiery furnace serves as a call to repentance for those who are far from God. It is a reminder of the urgency to turn to God and seek His mercy.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_psalm_21.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Psalm 21</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/main_themes_of_bible's_books.htm">What are the main themes of the Bible's books?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_is_god's_wrath_reconciled_with_love.htm">Psalm 21:8-10: How can the depiction of God's fiery wrath be reconciled with other scriptures portraying God as loving and merciful?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_psalm_91_10_immunity.htm">Is there any historical or archaeological evidence supporting Psalm 91:10 that faithful individuals experienced literal immunity from disasters?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/did_foreign_kings_ever_honor_israel's_god.htm">Psalm 138:4-5 speaks of all kings praising God. Is there any historical evidence that surrounding nations' rulers ever truly honored Israel's God in this way?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/21.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) <span class= "bld">Thou shalt make . . .</span>--As it stands the figure is most obscure. <a href="/lamentations/5-10.htm" title="Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.">Lamentations 5:10</a> is not analogous. Here the fire and not the blackness of the smoky oven is the object of comparison. A very slight literal change gives the sense obviously required: <span class= "ital">Thou shalt put them into a fiery oven. </span>The figure is not drawn from Sodom and Gomorrah, but from a smelter's furnace. (Comp. <a href="/isaiah/31-9.htm" title="And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, said the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.">Isaiah 31:9</a>; <a href="/malachi/3-3.htm" title="And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.">Malachi 3:3</a>. For the custom in its literal horror, see <a href="/jeremiah/48-45.htm" title="They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.">Jeremiah 48:45</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/49-2.htm" title="Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir to them that were his heirs, said the LORD.">Jeremiah 49:2</a>; <a href="/amos/2-1.htm" title="Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:">Amos 2:1</a>, where the reference is to the Transjordanic tribes.) The Philistines subjected their enemies to a similar treatment (<a href="/judges/15-6.htm" title="Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.">Judges 15:6</a>). . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/21.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of his anger</span>. Some suppose a reference to the event mentioned in <a href="/2_samuel/12-31.htm">2 Samuel 12:31</a>, "He (David) made them (the Ammonites) to pass through the <span class="accented">brick-kiln.</span>;" but the expression "fiery oven" is probably not intended to be taken literally, but metaphorically. Severe suffering is continually compared in Scripture to confinement in an oven or furnace (see <a href="/deuteronomy/4-20.htm">Deuteronomy 4:20</a>; <a href="/1_kings/8-51.htm">1 Kings 8:51</a>; <a href="/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/11-4.htm">Jeremiah 11:4</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/22-18.htm">Ezekiel 22:18, 20, 22</a>; <a href="/malachi/4-1.htm">Malachi 4:1</a>). And we may best understand the present passage to mean simply that in the time of his anger David would subject such of his enemies as fell into his hands to very terrible sufferings. (See, as showing what extreme severities David did sometimes inflict on captured enemies, <a href="/2_samuel/12-31.htm">2 Samuel 12:31</a> which is to the point, as also is <a href="/1_kings/11-15.htm">1 Kings 11:15, 16</a>.) <span class="cmt_word">The Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.</span> The metaphor is followed up, with the addition that what was previously attributed to David alone is here declared to have the sanction of God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/psalms/21-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">You will place them</span><br /><span class="heb">תְּשִׁיתֵ֤מוֹ ׀</span> <span class="translit">(tə·šî·ṯê·mōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7896.htm">Strong's 7896: </a> </span><span class="str2">To put, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in a fiery</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵשׁ֮</span> <span class="translit">(’êš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_784.htm">Strong's 784: </a> </span><span class="str2">A fire</span><br /><br /><span class="word">furnace</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּתַנּ֥וּר</span> <span class="translit">(kə·ṯan·nūr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Noun - common singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8574.htm">Strong's 8574: </a> </span><span class="str2">(portable) stove, firepot</span><br /><br /><span class="word">at the time</span><br /><span class="heb">לְעֵ֪ת</span> <span class="translit">(lə·‘êṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - common singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6256.htm">Strong's 6256: </a> </span><span class="str2">Time, now, when</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Your appearing.</span><br /><span class="heb">פָּ֫נֶ֥יךָ</span> <span class="translit">(pā·ne·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> </span><span class="str2">The face</span><br /><br /><span class="word">In His wrath</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּאַפּ֣וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·’ap·pōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_639.htm">Strong's 639: </a> </span><span class="str2">The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְ֭הוָה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will engulf them,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְבַלְּעֵ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ḇal·lə·‘êm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1104.htm">Strong's 1104: </a> </span><span class="str2">To swallow down, swallow up, engulf</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and the fire</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵֽשׁ׃</span> <span class="translit">(’êš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_784.htm">Strong's 784: </a> </span><span class="str2">A fire</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will consume them.</span><br /><span class="heb">וְֽתֹאכְלֵ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ṯō·ḵə·lêm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/psalms/21-9.htm">Psalm 21:9 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/psalms/21-9.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 21:9 You will make them as a fiery (Psalm Ps Psa.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/psalms/21-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 21:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 21:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/psalms/21-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 21:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 21:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>