Psalms 21:1
Yahweh, ◄ I, your king am glad/the king is glad► because you have caused me/him to be strong. ◄I rejoice/he rejoices► greatly because you have rescued me/him from my/his enemies.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 20:5When we hear that you have defeated your enemies, we will shout joyfully. We will lift up a banner proclaiming that it is God [MTY] who helps us (inc). I want Yahweh to do for you all that you request him to do.
Psalms 28:7Yahweh makes me strong and protects me like a shield [MET]; I trusted in him, and he helped me. I was glad, and from my inner being I praised him as I sang to him.
Psalms 62:7God is the one who saves me and honors me. He is like an overhanging strong rock under which I can find shelter [MET].
Psalms 71:17God, you have taught me many/those things ever since I was young, and I still tell people about your wonderful deeds.
Psalms 99:4He is a mighty king who ◄loves/is pleased with► what is just/right; he has acted justly and fairly [DOU] in Israel.
Isaiah 9:6Another reason that we will rejoice is that a special child will be born for us; a woman will give birth to a son, who will be our ruler. And his names will be ‘Wonderful Counselor’, ‘Mighty/Powerful God’, ‘ Our Everlasting Father’, and ‘Prince/Ruler who enables us to have Peace’.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 21:1
As the foregoing psalm was a prayer for the king that God would protect and prosper him, so this is a thanksgiving for the success God had blessed him with. Those whom we have prayed for we ought to give thanks for, and particularly for kings, in whose prosperity we share. They are here taught, I. To congratulate him on his victories, and the honour he had achieved, ver. 1-6 . II. To confide in the power of God for the completing of the ruin of the enemies of his kingdom, ver. 7-13 . In this there is an eye to… Read the whole commentary →