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Psalms 21

1A thanksgiving for victory, 7with confidence of further success.


0 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

    1 THE aking shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and bin thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

    2 Thou chast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

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

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

    5 His gglory is great in thy salvation: hhonour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

    6 For ithou hast 1made him most blessed for ever: thou hast 2made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

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

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

    9 Thou lshalt 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 mfruit 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 nthey are not able to perform.

    12 Therefore 3shalt thou make them turn their 4back, when thou oshalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

    13 Be pthou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and qpraise thy power.