Psalms 20:8
They — they have bowed and have fallen, And we have risen and station ourselves upright.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
In Context
7Some of chariots, and some of horses, And we of the name of Jehovah our God Make mention.
9O Jehovah, save the king, He doth answer us in the day we call!
Cross References
Judges 5:31So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him [are] As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.
2 Kings 19:23By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains — The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
2 Chronicles 14:11And Asa calleth unto Jehovah his God, and saith, 'Jehovah! it is nothing with Thee to help, between the mighty and those who have no power; help us, O Jehovah, our God, for on Thee we have leant, and in Thy name we have come against this multitude; O Jehovah, our God thou [art]; let him not prevail with Thee — mortal man!
Psalms 33:16The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power.
Psalms 34:21Evil doth put to death the wicked, And those hating the righteous are desolate.
Psalms 125:1A Song of the Ascents. Those trusting in Jehovah [are] as Mount Zion, It is not moved — to the age it abideth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 20:7-9
The Subject's Prayer for the Sovereign. 6 Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. 9 Save, Lord : let the king hear us when we call. Here is, I. Holy David himself triumphing in the interest he had in the prayers of good people ( v. 6 ): " Now know I (I that pen… Read the whole commentary →