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Psalms 21

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

  1. 1
    WEBFor the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
    KJVTo the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
  2. 2
    WEBYou have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
    KJVThou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
  3. 3
    WEBFor you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
    KJVFor thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
  4. 4
    WEBHe asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.
    KJVHe asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
  5. 5
    WEBHis glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.
    KJVHis glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
  6. 6
    WEBFor you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
    KJVFor thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
  7. 7
    WEBFor the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
    KJVFor the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
  8. 8
    WEBYour hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
    KJVThine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
  9. 9
    WEBYou will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
    KJVThou 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.
  10. 10
    WEBYou will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.
    KJVTheir fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
  11. 11
    WEBFor they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
    KJVFor they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
  12. 12
    WEBFor you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
    KJVTherefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
  13. 13
    WEBBe exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power.
    KJVBe thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
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