King James VersionPsalms21

Psalms

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.