Chapter 21
The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
(Title
&) A psalm. This is the people's [epinikion] or song of triumph, after the victory for which they prayed in the former Psalm.
The king
2:6 20:6,9 63:11 72:1,2 Isaiah 9:6,7 Matthew 2:2
joy
in thy
20:5 71:17-24 118:14,15 Hebrews 12:2
Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
2:8,9 20:4,5 92:11 Isaiah 49:6-12 Hebrews 7:25
For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
preventest
18:18 1 Samuel 16:13 2 Samuel 2:4 5:3 Job 41:11 Romans 11:35
blessings
31:19 2 Chronicles 6:41 Romans 2:4 Ephesians 1:3
settest
2 Samuel 12:30 1 Chronicles 20:2 Hebrews 2:9 Revelation 19:12
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
asked
13:3 16:10,11 61:5,6 119:77,175
length
72:17 89:29,36,37 91:16 Revelation 1:18
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
glory
3:3 62:7 2 Samuel 7:8,9,19 Isaiah 49:5-7 63:1 John 13:31,32 17:1,5,22 Philippians 2:9-11 Hebrews 8:1 Revelation 5:8-13
honour
110:1 1 Chronicles 17:11-15,27 Matthew 28:18 Ephesians 1:20-22 1 Peter 3:22
For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
made
Heb. set him to be blessings.
72:17-19 Genesis 12:2 Luke 2:10,11,30-32 Acts 3:26 Galatians 3:9,14 Ephesians 1:3
made him exceeding glad
Heb. gladdened him with joy.
4:6,7 16:11 45:7 63:2-5 Acts 2:28
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
For the
13:5 18:2 20:7,8 26:1 61:4,6,7 91:2,9,10 1 Samuel 30:6 Matthew 27:43 Hebrews 2:13
most
he shall
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
2:9 18:1 *title; 72:9 89:22,23 110:1,2 1 Samuel 25:29 31:3 2 Samuel 7:1 Amos 9:2,3 Luke 19:14,27 1 Corinthians 15:25 Hebrews 10:28,29 Revelation 19:15
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Thou
Genesis 19:28 Daniel 3:20-22 Malachi 4:1 Matthew 13:42,50 25:41,46 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Revelation 20:14
the Lord
56:1,2 106:17 Job 6:3 Lamentations 2:2
in his
2:5,12 Matthew 22:7 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Revelation 6:16,17 19:15
the fire
18:8 Deuteronomy 32:22 Isaiah 26:11 Nahum 1:6 Matthew 3:10,12
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
37:28 109:13 1 Kings 13:34 Job 18:16-19 20:28 Isaiah 14:20 Malachi 4:1
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
imagined
2:1 10:2 31:13 35:20 Jeremiah 11:18,19 Ezekiel 11:2 Matthew 21:46 26:4,5 Acts 5:27,28
are not
83:4 Isaiah 7:6,7 8:9,10 Matthew 2:8,16 27:63,64 28:2-6 Acts 4:17,18
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Therefore
make, etc
or, set them as a butt.
Job 7:20 16:12,13 Lamentations 3:12
back
Heb. shoulder. thou shalt.
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
Be thou
18:46 46:10 57:5,11 72:18,19 113:5 *marg:; 1 Chronicles 29:11 Job 9:19 Matthew 6:10,13 Revelation 11:17