Psalms 21:11

"You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men."

Key Reflection

In Psalms 21:11, the psalmist predicts a divine judgment where the enemies' lineage will be utterly erased—both their immediate descendants and future generations will vanish from the earth. This verse reflects the ancient belief in the divine power to punish entire lineages for the sins of the fathers, emphasizing the severity of God's wrath against those who oppose His people.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For they intended evil against thee -literally, “They stretched out evil.” The idea seems to be derived from “stretching out” or laying snares, nets, or gins, for the purpose of taking wild beasts. That is, they formed a plan or purpose to bring evil upon God and his cause: as the hunter or fowler forms a purpose or plan to take wild beasts or fowls. It is not merely a purpose in the head, as our word “intended” would seem to imply; it supposes that arrangements had been entered into, or that a scheme had been formed to injure the cause of God - that is, through the person referred to in the psalm.

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