Psalms 21

1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, the king rejoices in Your strength. How greatly he exults in Your salvation!

2 You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

3 For You welcomed him with rich blessings; You placed on his head a crown of pure gold.

4 He asked You for life, and You granted it—length of days, forever and ever.

5 Great is his glory in Your salvation; You bestow on him splendor and majesty.

6 For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.

7 For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.

8 Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.

9 You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

10 You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

11 Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

12 For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

13 Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.

1 ¶ To 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 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

4 He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] him, [even] length of days for ever and ever.

5 His glory [is] great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

7 ¶ For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

9 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.

10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].

12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.

13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: [so] will we sing and praise thy power.

1 a psalm of David, to be sung.

2 O LORD, the king rejoiceth in thy strength; and how glad is he in thy help!

3 Thou givest him his heart's desire, and refuseest not what his mouth asketh. Sela.

4 For thou hast showered good blessings upon him; thou hast set a crown of gold upon his head.

5 He asketh thee for life, and thou givest him long life for ever and ever.

6 He hath great honour in thy help: thou layest up praise and ornament upon him.

7 For thou hast set him for a blessing for ever: thou hast made him to rejoice in thy countenance.

8 For the king hopeth in the LORD, and shall stand fast by the goodness of the most High.

9 Thine hand shall find all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find them that hate thee.

10 Thou shalt make them as a furnace of fire, when thou shalt look therein: the LORD shall devour them in his wrath. Fire shall devour them.

11 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from off the face of the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

12 For they thought to do thee evil, and made designs which they could not perform.

13 For thou shalt make her a shoulder; with thy sinew thou shalt aim at her face.

14 Arise, O Lord, in thy strength, and let us sing and praise thy might.