Psalm 21

Psalm 21 is the 21st psalm from the Book of Psalms. It is internally accredited to King David.

This psalm is a psalm of thanksgiving. It focuses on the imagery of a king, who is often credited with being an example of the moral state of a kingdom in the Old Testament.

Full Text

The following is the full English text of the Psalm from the King James Bible.

Psalm 21
(To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.)
¹ 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.

Psalms

The Book of Psalms, Tehillim in Hebrew (תְּהִלִּים or תהילים meaning "Praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. The title is derived from the Greek translation, ψαλμοί psalmoi, meaning "instrumental music" and, by extension, "the words accompanying the music." The book is an anthology of individual psalms, with 150 in the Jewish and Western Christian tradition and more in the Eastern Christian churches. Many of the psalms are linked to the name of King David, although his authorship is not accepted by modern Bible scholars.

Structure

Benedictions

The Book of Psalms is divided into five sections, each closing with a doxology (i.e., a benediction) – these divisions were probably introduced by the final editors to imitate the five-fold division of the Torah:

Psalm (disambiguation)

Psalms is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

Psalm may also refer to:

Psalm 79

Psalm 79 (Greek numbering: Psalm 78) is the 79th psalm in the biblical Book of Psalms.

Uses

Judaism

References