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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Psalm 21

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

28:7 62:7 95:1 99:4

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

9:2 Deuteronomy 32:8,9

he shall

16:8 Daniel 7:14

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

9:3 44:10 56:9

make, etc

or, set them as a butt.

Job 7:20 16:12,13 Lamentations 3:12

back

Heb. shoulder. thou shalt.

7:13 18:14 64:7

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

so will

58:10,11 Revelation 15:3,4 16:5-7 18:20 19:1-6