Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 21:10
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
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).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. Their fruit shalt thou destroy] Even their posterity shall be cut off, and thus their memorial shall perish.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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 mans 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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
10. fruitchildren (Psa 37:25;Hos 9:16).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Their fruit shall thou destroy from the earth,…. Meaning the offspring of wicked men; the fruit of the womb, Ps 127:3; the same with their seed in the next clause:
and their seed from among the children of men; see Ps 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, Re 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, Re 2:23; see Ps 104:35.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
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. (488) And yet when he thus pursues his vengeance to the third and fourth generation, he cannot be said indiscriminately to involve the innocent with the guilty. As the seed of the ungodly, whom he has deprived of his grace, are accursed, and as all are by nature children of wrath, devoted to everlasting destruction, he is no less just in exercising his severity towards the children than towards the fathers. Who can lay any thing to his charge, if he withhold from those who are unworthy of it the grace which he communicates to his own children? In both ways he shows how dear and precious to him is the kingdom of Christ; first, in extending his mercy to the children of the righteous even to a thousand generations; and, secondly, in causing his wrath to rest upon the reprobate, even to the third and fourth generation.
(488) “ Mais qu’il le fait mesme regorger au sein des enfans d’iceux.” — Fr. See Isa 65:6.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(10) Their fruit.More fully, fruit of the womb (Psa. 127:3; Psa. 132:11).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
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.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
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
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
children = sons.
men. Hebrew. ‘adam. App-14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Psa 37:28, Psa 109:13, 1Ki 13:34, Job 18:16-19, Job 20:28, Isa 14:20, Mal 4:1
Reciprocal: Jdg 9:20 – let fire come out Est 9:10 – ten sons Psa 28:4 – and Isa 10:12 – punish the fruit of the stout heart Luk 3:17 – but
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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 Lords 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 Josephs 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.