Psalms 20:9
Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Inveniatur manus tua omnibus inimicis tuis ; dextera tua inveniat omnes qui te oderunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εὑρεθείη ἡ χείρ σου πᾶσιν τοῖς ἐχθροῖς σου, ἡ δεξιά σου εὕροι πάντας τοὺς μισοῦντάς σε.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 21:9
- תִּמְצָ֣א יָ֭דְךָ לְכָל אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ יְ֝מִֽינְךָ תִּמְצָ֥א שֹׂנְאֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Thy hand. O king, Messias, or God. No earthly monarch can always punish his enemies. But none can escape the hand of the Almighty. He will bring all to judgment. (Berthier)
The just approve of God's decree in punishing. This is all a prediction. (Worthington)
Let thine enemies find thy power, so as to return to good. (St. Jerome)
To find, often means to attack, (Judges i. 5., and 3 Kings xiii. 24.) or to accomplish with ease, Deuteronomy xxxiii. 1.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXI
9. “Let Thy hand be found by all Thine enemies.” Be Thy power, O King, when Thou comest to judgment, found by all Thine enemies; who in Thy humiliation discerned it not. “Let Thy right hand find out all that hate Thee” ( ver. 8 ). Let the glory, wherein Thou reignest at the right hand of the Father, find out for punishment in the day of judgment all that hate Thee; for that now they have not found it.