Psalms 21:8

You ¹  prevail over ²  all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you. ³ 

1Sa 25:29; 1Sa 31:3; 2Sa 7:1; Ps 2:9; Ps 18:1; Ps 72:9; Ps 89:22,23; Ps 110:1,2; Am 9:2,3; Lu 19:14,27; 1Co 15:25; Heb 10:28,29; Re 19:15

¹ tn The king is now addressed. One could argue that the Lord is still being addressed, but v. 9 militates against this proposal, for there the Lord is mentioned in the third person and appears to be distinct from the addressee (unless, of course, one takes “Lord” in v. 9 as vocative; see the note on “them” in v. 9b). Verse 7 begins this transition to a new addressee by referring to both the king and the Lord in the third person (in vv. 1-6 the Lord is addressed and only the king referred to in the third person).

² tn Heb “your hand finds.” The idiom pictures the king grabbing hold of his enemies and defeating them (see 1 Sam 23:17). The imperfect verbal forms in vv. 8-12 may be translated with the future tense, as long as the future is understood as generalizing.

³ tn Heb “your right hand finds those who hate you.”