Psalm 20 - 21
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
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May the Lord l answer you in the day of trouble!
May m the name of the God of Jacob n protect you!
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May he send you help from o the sanctuary
and give you support from p Zion!
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May he q remember all your offerings
and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah
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May he r grant you your heart's desire
and fulfill all your plans!
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May we shout for joy over s your salvation,
and in the name of our God set up our t banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!
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Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
he will answer him from his holy heaven
with u the saving might of his right hand.
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Some trust in v chariots and some in w horses,
x but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
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They collapse and fall,
but we rise and stand upright.
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O Lord, save y the king!
May he answer us when we call.
Psalms 21
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
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O Lord, in your z strength the king rejoices,
and in your a salvation how greatly he exults!
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You have b given him his heart's desire
and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
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For you c meet him with rich blessings;
you set d a crown of e fine gold upon his head.
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He asked life of you; you f gave it to him,
g length of days forever and ever.
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His h glory is great through your salvation;
i splendor and majesty you bestow on him.
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For you make him most blessed forever;
you make him glad with the j joy of your presence.
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For the king trusts in the Lord,
and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be k moved.
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Your hand will l find out all your enemies;
your right hand will find out those who hate you.
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You will make them as m a blazing oven
when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his n wrath,
and o fire will consume them.
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You p will destroy their q descendants from the earth,
and their offspring from among the children of man.
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Though they plan evil against you,
though they r devise mischief, they will not succeed.
12
For you will put them s to flight;
you will t aim at their faces with your bows.
13
Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!
We will sing and praise your power.
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Cross References
Genesis 35:3
Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.
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Proverbs 18:10
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
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Psalms 59:1
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me.
Psalms 69:29
But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!
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Psalms 73:17
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
2 Chronicles 20:8
And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying.
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Psalms 128:5
The Lord bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!
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Acts 10:4
And he stared at him in terror and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
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Psalms 21:2
You have given him his heart's desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
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Psalms 9:14
That I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.
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Psalms 60:4
You have set up a banner for those who fear you, that they may flee to it from the bow. Selah
Song of Solomon 6:4
You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
Song of Solomon 6:10
"Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?"
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Psalms 28:8
The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
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Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
Isaiah 36:9
How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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Proverbs 21:31
The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
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1 Samuel 17:45
Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
2 Chronicles 32:8
With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
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Psalms 48:2
Beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.
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Psalms 8:2
Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 28:7 - 8
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
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Psalms 9:14
That I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.
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Psalms 20:4 - 5
May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!
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Psalms 59:10
My God in his steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.
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2 Samuel 12:30
And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
1 Chronicles 20:2
And David took the crown of their king from his head. He found that it weighed a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone. And it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
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Psalms 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
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Psalms 61:6
Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations!
2 Samuel 7:19
And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!
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Psalms 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.
1 Kings 1:31
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and paid homage to the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever!
Nehemiah 2:3
I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?
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Psalms 8:5
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
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Psalms 45:3
Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty!
Psalms 96:6
Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
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Psalms 45:7
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.
Psalms 16:11
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
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Psalms 10:6
He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.
Psalms 16:8
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
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Isaiah 10:10
As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria.
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Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Psalms 83:14
As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze.
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Psalms 2:5
Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying.
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Psalms 18:8
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring ...
Psalms 50:3
Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before...
Psalms 97:3
Fire goes before him and burns up his adversari...
Isaiah 26:11
O Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not...
Job 20:26
Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a ...
Daniel 7:10
A stream of fire issued and came out from befor...
Habakkuk 3:5
Before him went pestilence, and plague followed...
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Psalms 34:16
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
1 Kings 13:34
And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.
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Psalms 37:28
For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms 109:13
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
Job 18:16 - 17
His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
Job 18:19
He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
Isaiah 14:20
You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. "May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named!
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Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Psalms 10:2
In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
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Psalms 18:40
You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.
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Psalms 7:12
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow.
Psalms 11:2
For behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.
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