Psalms 21
1 Yahweh, ([I], your king am glad/the king is glad) because you have caused me/him to be strong. (I rejoice/he rejoices) greatly because you have rescued me/him [from my/his enemies].
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 You have given me/him the things that I/he [SYN] desired and you have not refused to do what I requested you to do.
Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. (Selah)
3 In answer to my/his prayer, you enabled me/him to succeed and prosper. You placed a gold crown on my/his head.
For thou meetest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
4 I/He asked you to enable me/him to live [for a long time], and that is what you gave me/him, a very long [HYP] life.
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it to him, even length of days for ever and ever.
5 (I am/He is) greatly honored because you have helped me/him to defeat my/his enemies; you have made me/him famous.
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
6 You will bless me/him forever, and you have caused me/him to be joyful in your presence.
For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
7 Yahweh, you are God Almighty, and (I trust/the king trusts) in you. Because you faithfully love me/him, disastrous things will never happen to me/him.
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
8 You will enable me/him to capture [MTY] all my/his enemies and all those who hate me/him.
Thy hand shall find out all thy enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
9 When you appear, you will throw them into a fiery furnace. Because you are angry [with them], you will get rid of them; the fire will burn them up.
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thy anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
10 You will remove their children from this earth; their descendants will all disappear.
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
11 They planned to harm you, but what they plan will never succeed.
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
12 You will cause them to run away [IDM] by shooting arrows at them.
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thy arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
13 Yahweh, show us that you are very strong! When you do that, while we sing we will praise you because you are very powerful.
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thy own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
