Psalms 21:10

Psa 21:10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

Ver. 10. Their fruit shalt thou destroy] i.e. Their labour, and that which comes thereof, Pro 21:16; Pro 21:31; they shall toil to no purpose; the gains shall not pay for the pains, Nulla emolumenta laborum (Juven.).

And their seed] For as personal goodness is profitable to posterity; so on the contrary; as in the second commandment: they are peremptores potius quam parentes (Bern.).

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Psa 21:10-11. Their fruit shalt thou destroy — Their children. God will take away both root and branch; the parents and all that wicked race. For they intended evil against thee — That is, against God; not directly, but by consequence, because it was against David, whom God had anointed, or against the Messiah, of whom he was a type, and against the Lord’s people, injuries done to whom, God takes to be done to himself, Zec 2:8. They imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform — This clause seems to be added to teach us this great and necessary lesson, that men are justly punished by God for their wicked intentions, although they be hindered from the execution of them, contrary to what some Jewish doctors, and others, have taught. “Vengeance came upon the Jews to the uttermost, because of their intended malice against Christ. They, like Joseph’s brethren, thought evil against him, but they were not able to perform it, for God meant it unto good, to bring it to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive, Gen 50:20. So let all the designs of ungodly men against thy church, O Lord, through thy power of bringing good out of evil, turn to her advantage; and let all men be convinced that no weapon formed against thee can prosper.”

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11. (Psa 21:10). Their fruit shalt thou make to perish from the earth, and their seed from (among) the sons of man (or Adam). This extends the threatened destruction of the enemies to all their generations. The same figurative use of fruit occurs in Hos 9:16.

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21:10 children . . . descendants: Evil will end when God destroys all opposition to himself (109:13; cp. 18:50; 22:30-31; 25:13; 102:28).

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fruit--children (Psa 37:25; Hos 9:16).

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Verse 10. Their fruit shalt thou destroy] Even their posterity shall be cut off, and thus their memorial shall perish.

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10. Thou shalt destroy their fruit from the earth. David amplifies the greatness of God’s wrath, from the circumstance that it shall extend even to the children of the wicked. It is a doctrine common enough in Scripture, that God not only inflicts punishment upon the first originators of wickedness, but makes it even to overflow into the bosom of their children. “Mais qu’il le fait mesme regorger au sein des enfans d’iceux.” — Fr. See Isaiah 65:6, 7.

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(10) Their fruit.—More fully, “fruit of the womb” (Psa_127:3; Psa_132:11).

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10. Even their posterity shall be utterly destroyed. Cp. Psa_9:5; Psa_37:28. Fruit = children, ‘the fruit of the womb’ (Lam_2:20).

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Their fruit shall thou destroy from the earth,.... Meaning the offspring of wicked men; the fruit of the womb, Psa 127:3; the same with their seed in the next clause:

and their seed from among the children of men; see Psa 37:28; which must be understood of such of their seed, and offspring as are as they were when born; are never renewed and sanctified, but are like their parents; as the Jews were, their parents were vipers, and they were serpents, the generation of them; and were the children of the devil, and did his works: now these passages had their accomplishment in the Jews, when the day of God's wrath burnt them up, and left them neither root nor branch, Mal 4:1; and in the Pagan empire, when every mountain and island were moved out of their places, and the Heathen perished out of the land, Rev 6:14; and will be further accomplished when the Lord shall punish the wicked woman Jezebel, the antichristian harlot, and kill her children with death, Rev 2:23; see Psa 104:35.

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Their fruit - Their offspring; their children; their posterity, for so the parallelism demands. The “fruit” is that which the tree produces; and hence, the word comes to be applied to children as the production of the parent. See this use of the word in Gen 30:2; Exo 21:22; Deu 28:4, Deu 28:11, Deu 28:18; Psa 127:3; Hos 9:16; Mic 6:7.

Shalt thou destroy from the earth - Thou shalt utterly destroy them. This is in accordance with the statement so often made in the Scriptures, and with what so often occurs in fact, that the consequences of the sins of parents pass over to their posterity, and that they suffer in consequence of those sins. Compare Exo 20:5; Exo 34:7; Lev 20:5; Lev 26:39; compare the notes at Rom 5:12-21.

And their seed - Their posterity.

From among the children of men - From among men, or the human family. That is, they would be entirely cut off from the earth. The truth taught here is, that the wicked will ultimately be destroyed, and that God will obtain a complete triumph over them, or that the kingdom of righteousness shall be at length completely established. A time will come when truth and justice shall be triumphant, when all the wicked shall be removed out of the way; when all that oppose God and his cause shall be destroyed, and when God shall show, by thus removing and punishing the wicked, that he is the Friend of all that is true, and good, and right. The “idea” of the psalmist probably was that this would yet occur on the earth; the “language” is such, also, as may be applied to that ultimate state, in the future world, when all the wicked shall be destroyed, and the righteous shall be no more troubled with them.

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Their fruit; either,

1. The fruit of their labours. Or rather,

2. Their seed or children, as it is explained in the next branch, oft called a man’s fruit, as Deu 28:4 Psa 127:3; 132:11; Lam 2:20. God will take away both root and branch, the parents and all that wicked race.

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Ver. 10. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth. Their life's work shall be a failure, and the result of their toil shall be disappointment. That in which they prided themselves shall be forgotten; their very names shall be wiped out as abominable, and their seed from among the children of men. Their posterity following in their footsteps shall meet with a similar overthrow, till at last the race shall come to an end. Doubtless the blessing of God is often handed down by the righteous to their sons, as almost a heirloom in the family, while the dying sinner bequeaths a curse to his descendants. If men will hate the Son of God, they must not wonder if their own sons meet with no favour.

Ver. 10. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. A day is coming when all the "fruits" of sin, brought forth by sinners in their words, their writings, and their actions shall be "destroyed; "yea, the tree itself, which had produced them, shall be rooted up, and cast into the fire. The "seed" and posterity of the wicked, if they continue in the way of their forefathers, will be punished like them. Let parents consider, that upon their principles and practices may depend the salvation or destruction of multitudes after them. The case of the Jews, daily before their eyes, should make them tremble. George Horne.

None.

Psalms 21:11*

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10. Fruit… seed—The words may be taken as synonymous for posterity; or, the first for the products of the earth, and the second for children. The idea is that of utter desolation.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth; i.e. their offspring or progeny. Joab, by David"s orders, remained in Edom "until he had cut off every male". (1Ki_11:16) And their seed from among the children of men. The second clause, as so often, re-echoes the first; without adding anything to it.

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Fruit - Their children. God will take away both root and branch, the parents and all that wicked race.

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at the time of Your anger Heb. פניך, at the time of Your fury.

destroy them with His wrath This is a prayer.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.